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Orbital Sciences, which lost $200 million Tuesday, still needs to launch six cargo flights to the International Space Station.

The state's Public Utilities Commission this week allowed opponents to join a critical permitting process.

Bush meat refers to meat that comes from a variety of wild animals like bats, rats and small primates and is often smoked, dried or salted.

Climate scientists praise New York's short-term restoration efforts but wonder if the Big Apple is adequately prepared for the coming decades.

NASA has so far neither asked for assistance nor responded to Russia’s offer.

Residents of Pahoa, a town of about 1,000 people, have fled their homes as lava from the Kilauea volcano moves closer.

The Ebola virus has so far killed nearly 5,000 people and has infected more than 10,000 people, mostly in West Africa.

No one was hurt during the Antares rocket explosion in Virginia Tuesday.

“She doesn’t want to agree to continue to be confined to a residence beyond the two days,” Kaci Hickox's lawyer reportedly said.

Fifty of the Ebola vaccine trial's volunteers will travel to West Africa to provide support to regions most affected.

An unmanned Orbital Sciences Antares rocket exploded seconds after liftoff from NASA's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport.

With sea levels projected to rise by 2.5 feet in NYC by the 2050s, the city is seriously studying ways to protect itself.

"As a precautionary measure, Nutek believed it was a prudent decision to withdraw all its baby wipe products," the company said.

Pope Francis has said that the concepts of evolution and creationism are not mutually exclusive ideas.

A majority of Americans are confident that the U.S. government could stop an Ebola epidemic in America, new polling shows.

The Ebola outbreak has climbed exponentially since last year, but it all started in a small town in southern Guinea.

West Africa needs more than 5,000 additional health care workers if the Ebola outbreak is to be controlled, health officials have said.

In 1980, there were 76,000 lions in Africa. But, that number has reportedly declined to about 30,000 today.

The U.S. CDC has provided guidelines aimed at building a national standard on the way to handle the Ebola virus.

The study's findings, which were questioned by BP, support a disputed theory that the spill damaged deep-sea corals.

AIDS activists have joined health experts in opposing mandatory quarantines for U.S. health workers returning from West Africa.

A Japanese journalist who spent two months in Ebola-ravaged Liberia was found with a fever at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Monday.

New research says the shrinking Arctic sea ice is to blame for Europe's recent severe winters.

Scientists recently discovered the 100-year-old notebook of one of the first people to explore Antarctica.

The U.S. pharmaceutical company is divesting assets and investing in research for new products like insomnia drug Belsomra.

“The patient being monitored in isolation has thankfully been symptom-free for the last 24 hours,” New Jersey's Health Department said.

Illinois has also introduced a quarantine policy for "high-risk" travelers coming from West Africa.

The nurses did not press Duncan on the details of his travel history, something that could have alerted them to his exposure to the virus.

Lava flows are moving more than 10 yards per hour and are around 300 yards from the closest home.