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Despite years of pleas, organ donation in the U.S. still falls far short of the need.

Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey and U.S. physician Ian Crozier have both suffered from possible relapses of Ebola. Although people often suffer from complications after Ebola, true relapses are a mystery, although they ...

Stunning images of Earth's sunlit face, snapped by a satellite located 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) away from the planet, will be available daily for people to browse on a new NASA website.

New guidelines say that women should start getting mammograms at age 45, rather than age 40.

People who have 11 or more moles on one of their arms could have a higher risk of the deadly skin cancer melanoma, according to a new study.

When it's time to design new robots, sometimes the best inspiration can come from Mother Nature. Take, for example, her creepy, but incredibly athletic spider crickets.

Neutrino study made key priority for US nuclear physics -- General Relativity: 100 years old and still full of surprises -- The search for elusive neutrinos in Antarctica generates massive amounts of data -- Struggling t...

An important step towards next-generation ultra-compact photonic and optoelectronic devices has been taken with the realization of a two-dimensional excitonic laser. Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s ...

Astronomers are using the Allen Telescope Array (ATA), a system of radio dishes about 300 miles (483 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco, to hunt for signals coming from the vicinity of KIC 8462852, a star that lies 1...

Alan Hoffman talks about his experience as a volunteer in a six-month trial of the first drug that seems to directly target the causes of Parkinson's disease

Scientists recently discovered that tungsten ditelluride (WTe2) is electronically three-dimensional with a low anisotropy. Anisotropy reflects the change in properties of a material when the direction of the current or t...

The Liberal party won Canada's general elections this week and has promised to unmuzzle scientists as well as ending the country's inertia on climate change

Magnetoencephalography, or MEG, is a non-invasive technique for investigating human brain activity for surgical planning or research, and has been used in hospitals and universities for more than 30 years. It's just one ...

Companies are integrating blockchain technology into ledgers, using it to track diamonds and ensure fair land distribution. The projects are first steps toward making governments and industries more transparent and...

In the ruins of a Roman city in southern Turkey, archaeologists have discovered a marble head of Medusa, somehow spared during an early Christian campaign against pagan art.

Experts advising the WHO are expected to recommend the use of the vaccine in some malaria-stricken countries

Antiochia...ad...Cragum, a Roman city founded in the first century, is located on southern Turkey's rugged coast. Little is known about the city from ancient texts, but archaeologists have unearthed traces of amazing mos...

Using computer modeling, researchers have produced scenarios in which the tails of diplodocid sauropods could have whipped at supersonic speeds. They constructed a 1/4 scale model with 3D printing to test their theory.

A "reactive case" is a new concept in explosives science currently being tested at Los Alamos National Laboratory. A reactive case would do more than just contain an explosive, but rather become part of the explosive eve...

These physics-themed jack-o'-lanterns come with extra brains. There are no tricks, only treats, when you add science to your annual pumpkin-carving festivities. That's why we at Symmetry created designs featuring spooky ...

Welcome to the Symmetry redesign! Notice something different? Today marks the launch of a brand new Symmetry magazine. We've simplified and updated our webpages to help you find what you're looking for, to guide your att...

Doctors at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center say there's a critical shortage of viable organs. So more patients are seeking organ donors and support online.