SCIENCE

An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier is heading toward Earth and will fly by it closer than the moon on Tuesday, providing a rare observing opportunity to scientists, NASA said.

At the American Institute of Cancer research (AICR) Annual Conference on Food, Nutrition and Physical activity, Washington experts presented a paper which shows the impact of physical activity on breast cancer. The paper suggests that a brisk walk can help reduce several key biological indicators of cancer risks such as sex hormone levels, inflammation and body fatness. The press release suggests that up to 40000 cases of breast cancer and 43000 cases of colon cancer in U.S are linked with lack ...

Six men return from 520 days spent in isolation to simulate the psychological demands of a manned space mission to Mars.

Addiction treatment would improve patient safety, researchers noted in survey.

Physicists officially christened three elements, substances that cannot be broken down by chemical means, on Friday at the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics meeting in London held once every three years.

Public health officials could use social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook to track contagious diseases, according to research published Tuesday.

A group of Medicare patients and their families sued the Obama administration on Thursday, saying they were deprived of coverage by the government health plan because of a policy that allows hospitals to avoid admitting elderly people with chronic ailments as inpatients.

Americans in the past year got access to 24 new medicines before they became available anywhere else, U.S. drug regulators said.

A number of parents are helping their underage children to sign up on Facebook by assisting them in lying about their age, a new survey has found.

Every fall, thousands of starlings put on a spectacular dance show just before dusk over the Gretna sky in Scotland in a breathtaking phenomenon called murmurations. This is when a huge flock of birds that are in migration form a magical shape-shifting flight pattern in the sky.

A fossil of a sabre-toothed squirrel has been found in Argentina.

Researchers discover that the skin sees UV light.

Runners from around the globe have been taking part in the New York City Marathon for nearly 40 years. However, they each have their own motivation and drive to finish the race

An asteroid nearly four Olympic swimming pools across will fly closer than the moon Tuesday, prompting officials to quell worries that the rogue rock will slam into the Earth.

Settlers to the New World had certain advantages -choice land, abundant resources, and according to new research, an evolutionary advantage that spread the pioneer's genes more and further than later immigrants.

Water on Mars increases the chances that life existed on the red planet.

Researchers have found that a hard probe inserted in the cerebral cortex of a rat model turns nearly as flexible as the surrounding gray matter in minutes, and induces less of the tough scarring that blocks hard probes that do not change.

Research into the eternal human aspiration to stay forever young continues to bring forth new meanings for and sources of the elusive fountain of youth. In yet another attempt, scientists have taken a cue from the ubiquitous Fruit Fly to satiate our hunger for evergreen youth.

China successfully carried out its first docking exercise on Thursday between two unmanned spacecraft.

In a first time effort, University Of Missouri researchers have indicated that babies have the capability to understand adults and communicate as young as 10 months. The new study explores the myth regarding infants and their mental agility of understanding life in the first year of birth. The study explained that babies start to understand another person's thought process, providing new insights on how humans acquire knowledge and how communication develops.

Early humans didn't just mate with Neanderthals during human evolution, but with Denisovans also.

Researchers called Chantix, the smoking-cessation drug linked to psychotic and suicidal side effects, unsafe for patients Wednesday; just days after federal health officials in October deemed the drug safe.

Hospital association says strikes harm patients.

An asteroid will come within 202,000 miles of earth on Nov. 8--closer than the moon.

Focus should be on eating less, according to two nutrition experts.

Burst of energy showed galaxies more mature than previously thought.

Doctors who took an ultrasound of a man's testicles to find out what was causing him pain were surprised to find a face staring at them.

Certain drugs are effective in cheaper pill form than as IVs, researchers said.

Heroin and cocaine can be deadly, but they pale in comparison to prescription painkillers that have reached epidemic levels, U.S. researchers reported Tuesday.