SCIENCE

New U.S. Drought Monitor maps show that 58 percent of California is in "exceptional" drought, up from 36 percent a week ago.

Emory University Hospital has one of the most sophisticated isolation units in the U.S., which it built in coordination with the CDC.

The conditional permit gives Oregon LNG permission to export natural gas to non-free trade agreement countries.

The Ebola virus is now affecting international soccer with the health ministry's decision to deny the team's entry to the island country.

Xtreme Eating 2014 publishes annual list of America's most calorific dishes... but what are these horrifically unhealthy meals doing to our bodies?

The announcement comes as WHO announces the Ebola virus has killed over 700 people since March.

Members of an isolated Amazonian tribe have made contact with outsiders, and the encounter was caught on video.

Latest World Health Organization data shows the spread of the Ebola virus in Western Africa.

Regional leaders are in crisis mode as the West Africa Ebola outbreak tops 729 deaths — the most ever in the virus' history.

The waves were recorded in 2012 in the Beaufort Sea, an area north of Alaska.

The findings are expected to offer fresh insights into ancient tropical insects and the world they inhabited.

Tidal heating and tidal-rotational deformation made the moon look somewhat like a lemon with a bulge on each side.

The female Graneledone boreopacifica octopus is perhaps the longest-living octopus on the planet.

The international community is turning its attention to West Africa, but the organizations on the ground need help fighting the deadly virus.

Much can be learned from the teeth of mammoth and mastodon, even though their diets were made up of little more than plants.

Google-backed genetic testing startup 23andMe has received a $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

Hundreds of volunteers will leave Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea as Ebola outbreak grows.

Is the gluten-free diet doing us more harm than good?

Minnesota legalized medical marijuana in May, but other state laws have lawyers playing catch up.

For astronomy fans, August will be a great month.

Two new mysterious craters were found in Siberia, and geologists say they may have been caused by climate change.

In most countries, the creation of electricity leads to the biggest source of water consumption

On average, the study found that parents of children who finished college lived about two years longer.

An Ebola outbreak in West Africa has focused the world's attention on the deadly disease.

NASA's Opportunity Rover landed on Mars in 2004.

After fighting Ebola for about a week, Khan passed away on Tuesday from the virus he risked his life to fight.

A NOAA study looking at 25 cities vulnerable to climate-change-related flooding indicates the trend is getting worse in the U.S.

The findings will help scientists better understand the sources of extraterrestrial water in the Milky Way galaxy.

Dinosaurs may have survived the killer asteroid strike if it had occurred slightly earlier or later in the planet's history, scientists say.