SCIENCE

Measles is "a psychosomatic illness," German biologist Stefan Lanka claims, in spite of the facts contrary to his opinion.

Strain on the region's health care systems is making a leading cause of death among children more difficult to combat.

The patient was the second to be flown home from Sierra Leone this week after contracting Ebola.

The saline ocean under Jupiter's moon Ganymede might hold more water than there is on all of Earth.

Forensic experts say they hope the breakthrough procedure could be used to solve cold cases.

Forced to ration its leftover plutonium-238 stockpile, NASA announced that it would not be using nuclear fuel for the next Discovery mission.

The government is set to award a new contract for its 12-acre marijuana farm by the end of the month.

A new study adds to growing evidence that we are increasingly lonely -- and it's not good for us.

Viewing the world's highest mountain on a screen won't be as exhilarating, but it's certainly safer.

Scientists should be able to easily reproduce one another’s findings –- but many find that’s not the case.

So far, the other health care workers have not exhibited symptoms of the virus.

The Milky Way is contoured into concentric ripples with ridges and grooves, making it at least 50 percent larger than previously thought.

Japan's space agency claims the new technology could make solar power generation in space a possibility.

One American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts touched down safely in Kazakhstan, after returning to Earth on a Russian spacecraft.

The pretzel was badly burnt, so was never edible, much to the disappointment of the hungry archaeologists who discovered it.

Australia's leading health agency has rejected homeopathy as true medicine for any of the 61 conditions it studied.

Around 15 percent of Zimbabwe’s population is thought to be living with HIV.

The dwarf galaxies, containing nearly 99 percent dark matter, could significantly advance our understanding of the universe.

Responding to a letter from Senate Democrats, Koch Industries declined to share information about climate research funded by the company.

Ocular Syphilis develops as a complication of the sexually-transmitted disease, and can cause blindness if left untreated.

The Arctic is already the fastest warming part of Earth, and is experiencing accelerated thinning and shrinking of its ice cover.

The Pacific Ocean phenomenon could result in brief bouts of rain for bone-dry California and set up 2015 to be one of the warmest years on record.

People tend to have more heart attacks and traffic accidents than usual on the day after they “spring forward,” studies say.

The majority – 65 percent – cited health reasons for choosing not to vaccinate.

Employees of the Department of Environmental Protection were allegedly told to stop using the words in official communications and emails.

Solar Impulse-2, a project co-founded by a Swiss businessman and an aeronaut, took off from Abu Dhabi early on Monday.

According to a new theory, Higgs boson decays into a light-carrying photon and a dark matter particle.

US 708 is hurtling through the Milky Way at about 745 miles per second -- making it the fastest moving object in the galaxy.

A mountain lion that wandered into a California shopping mall parking lot on Friday was shot with a tranquilizer dart but died as state wildlife officers sought to transport it to the wilderness, authorities said.