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It's that time of year -- as 2014 draws to a close, people around the country are making lists of their New Year's resolutions. Many of the lists include things like "quit smoking" and "exercise more," but other lists ha...

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa dominated worldwide headlines for several months this year, peaking with the news that the deadly virus had seen its first cases in the U.S. and Spain. But media outlets soon appeared to...

There was a 22 percent decline in the rate of cancer deaths from 1991 (the year it peaked) to 2011, according to the annual report from the American Cancer Society.

In 2015, green might just be the new black.

With 15 deaths and 36 states reporting widespread activity of the virus, the flu has officially reached epidemic levels in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday that this yea...

Someone forgot to tell Mother Nature that New Year's Eve is a time for celebration. Much of the United States Southwest will experience bone-chilling cold on Wednesday night, and some areas - including Las Vegas - may ev...

Ancient coyotes hunted large prey, and had larger jaws and sharper teeth to bring down their choice meals than modern-day coyotes do, a new study reports.

Are women starting companies in the most cutting edge fields and keeping pace with the future? Although many are now learning coding and engineering in school, working for global internet...

Robot helpers on the International Space Station are getting a new navigation system run by the orbiting outpost's own Wi-Fi

The Eva and spider 3D scanners helped celebrated paleontologist Louise Leakey digitally record the details of 1.8-million-year-old fossils found by her family and their colleagues in the 1970s and 1980s in Kenya.

A new simulation predicts that relatively small asteroids could cause big waves on the U.S. coastline, but not everyone thinks the threat is real.

(Phys.org)--The laws of thermodynamics are best known for dealing with energy in the context of physics, but a new study suggests the same concepts could help improve economic growth models by accounting for energy in th...

Alcohol affects how well, or not, someone can sing after getting drunk. And, according to a study, the same goes for buzzed birds, especially zebra finches.

A patent has been filed for a drug that produces some of ecstasy's euphoric effects - and seems to put the brakes on boozing

Drugs that are taken instead of alcohol, or which reduce the urge to consume it, should be treated carefully, but if they reduce harm, they must be allowed

Resurrecting ancient beers and wines is a subtle alchemy, but Patrick McGovern knows all the tricks. Who's for an Etruscan ale?

German researchers Tuesday said the Ebola virus in West Africa may have originated in bats. Researchers from the Robert Koch-Institute in Berlin said insectivorous free-tailed bats could be harboring the disease. The res...

An international aid organization is partly to blame for the magnitude of this year's Ebola outbreak in West Africa, a report from researchers at three top British universities found. Researchers argued debt piled onto G...

Archaeologists working at a site in Istanbul, Turkey have unearthed 37 remarkably well-preserved shipwrecks.

A look at five places that will help push 2014 into the global warming record books.

Debris and bodies from AirAsia Flight 8501 have been recovered, but search and rescue teams are still looking for the rest of the plane and its black box to determine what caused the crash.