SCIENCE

Classified as a Bacteriophage, it infects intestinal bacteria living in the human gut.

Scientists said they would have to position all spacecraft on the opposite side of Mars before the comet comes closer.

If the 2012 solar event had been directed toward Earth, it would have triggered the worst geomagnetic storm in more than four centuries.

The Ebola outbreak is being exacerbated by misinformation and a response effort stretched to the breaking point.

Google's big research project, known as the Baseline Study, will chronicle the human body.

New studies show that caffeine can worsen the effects of hot flashes and night sweats in menopausal women

The planets have temperatures between 1,500 degrees and 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit and were found to have very little water.

The Ebola virus may have reached Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country.

Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Texas in particular could gain from the nation's shift away from coal and toward natural gas electricity.

Surgeons in Mumbai removed 232 teeth from the mouth of Indian teen, Ashik Gavai, and it may just be a new world record.

If Voyager 1 is still in the heliosphere, scientists will observe a reversal in the direction of the solar magnetic field before the end of 2015.

Scientists in California have tried to prove what dog owners and lovers have long suspected -- man's best friend is capable of feeling jealous.

The director of U.S. bioterror lab that potentially exposed many workers to live anthrax resigned, the CDC said on Wednesday, according to Reuters in an exclusive report.

Wyoming's John Barrasso takes umbrage with the purported influence of “Hollywood elites” in crafting new EPA power plant rules.

A case of bubonic plague has claimed a life in China, pushing authorities to quarantine several areas in the Northwest.

Japan on Wednesday approved a new policy to step up the country's investment in coal-fired power plants built in developing countries.

At dusk, bats use the way sunlight is scattered in the atmosphere to regulate their internal magnetic compass, a study has found.

About 151 people have been placed in quarantine as they reportedly came in contact with a man who died of the plague.

The Wawona Packing Co. and the FDA have issued a voluntary fruit recall following the discovery of a potential listeria contamination.

“A profitable asteroid industry is upon us.”

Temple University researchers used "molecular scissors" to eliminate strains of the deadly virus.

Researchers used an anti-cancer drug to kick the virus out of hiding and expose it to the body's immune system.

Scientists found the owner of a camel barn in Saudi Arabia succumbed to an airborne version of the deadly MERS virus.

While a study has found wind farms generate a "reef effect," it does not rule out the possibility that such structures can harm marine life.

RFK Jr., the lawyer and environmental activist, has joined the anti-vaccination movement with a "dangerous" crusade linking vaccines and autism.

The "sponge" consists of a layer of carbon foam and a layer of graphite flakes.

Hunting fruit bats and other animals serves as a livelihood for many, but the practice could also be deadly.

The South Portland City Council is expected to approve a ban on exports of Canadian tar sands crude.

Scientists estimate they will have the wheat genome sequenced within three years.