SCIENCE

The Centers for Disease Control held an hour-long Twitter chat to answer the public's questions about the Ebola outbreak.

As officials seek out at least 80 people who had contact with patient Thomas E. Duncan, school attendance in Dallas drops 10 percent.

The Weather Channel has released its list of storm names for the upcoming winter storm season despite criticism.

Spotted catsharks vary in social behavior from one individual to another.

Concerned about toxic algae, the EPA may begin issuing health advisories about risks to supplies of drinking water.

Four family members who had contact with Duncan were ordered this week by Texas health officials to stay home.

Scientists said that they have found evidence the rough outline of this rectangular was actually formed by ancient rift valleys.

That's according to London-based group Save The Children. They also said that the scale of the disease is “massively unreported."

After a lethal injection took nearly an hour to kill an inmate in April, the Oklahoma prison system is updating execution protocol.

The state health department has confirmed that a case is being investigated but says little more.

One of the victims was a 10-year-old girl from Rhode Island.

The Ebola patient was seen vomiting outside his apartment complex on the way to a Dallas hospital, a local resident said.

GMO labeling is estimated to cost less than a penny a day per person, according to a new study.

Thomas Eric Duncan, a resident of Liberia, may have contracted Ebola from a pregnant woman who died of the disease.

The link between dinosaurs and birds may be explained by a reduction in the number of wrist bones over millions of years.

Sexual assault victims in Louisiana have come forward with hospital bills for medical services they received while undergoing a forensic medical exam.

Health officials are monitoring everyone who came into close contact with the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S.

There is a stigma against Liberian-Americans in wake of the Ebola epidemic.

Wildlife experts say the walrus gathering -- the largest ever recorded -- is one example of the impact of climate change.

A Canadian utility will formally commission the $1.4 billion CCS facility. The technology is vital if the world is to keep burning fossil fuels.

The unidentified patient is now in critical condition and has been moved to intensive care at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.

Scientists may have linked California's drought to man-made climate change, according to a new study.

The first Ebola patient in the U.S. has raised fears of a deadly outbreak, but there is another virus that is far more deadly.

Efforts by Nigeria and Senegal apparently have contained the Ebola outbreaks in those countries.

The first case of Ebola was recorded in the U.S. this week, after a man visiting Liberia contracted the deadly virus. Is the U.S. ready?

The dramatic drying up of the Aral Sea has also led to the collapse of fisheries and the communities that depended on the lake.

California is the first state to enact statewide legislation banning plastic bags in retail.

A new print and TV ad campaign for the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra features a woman for the first time -- and no men.

A large and rare canoe discovered in New Zealand sheds light on centuries-old Polynesian sailing technology.