The Draconid meteor shower is expected to begin its display Saturday, and it may peak between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
The Draconid meteor shower will peak on Saturday with an estimated 750 meteors per hour, which is sure to impress observers in the Middle East, north Africa and parts of Europe.
Android users can now join the search for the Higgs boson, as they now hold the Large Hadron Collider in the palm of their hands... or tablet computer. A new app called LHSee now allows Android smartphone users to explore three-dimensional diagrams of the machine.
A combo pill from drugmaker Merck, which treats both diabetes and high cholesterol, is the first of it sort to win the approval of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Reports surfaced Thursday of an influential medical group of doctors and advisers vote against routine screenings of prostate cancer for healthy men.
A majority of Europeans say they consider climate change to be one of the most pressing global problems, above an ongoing economic unraveling, according to a new poll released Friday.
The world becomes overrun by zombies; flesh-eating hordes of the undead. Would you be prepared? The tongue-in-cheek question was posed in March by the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, not as a way to scare the living come Halloween, but to raise awareness of how unprepared residents can be for dire emergencies during natural disasters.
A recall due to the listeria infection has just reached Buffalo, NY, according to NPR.
Two worsening tropical storms threaten to hit Mexico's Pacific coast early next week, while a category one hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean is expected to fizzle out before it hits the east coast.
Reports surfaced Thursday of an influential medical group of doctors and advisers voting against routine screenings of prostate cancer for healthy men. Although the vote has drawn criticism from health groups worried that the move will increase deaths in men at risk of the cancer.
An international team of scientists has detected pulsed gamma-ray emissions from the Crab pulsar at far higher energies than expected.
A spacecraft orbiting Venus has discovered an ozone layer high in the planet’s atmosphere, similar to that surrounding Earth and Mars according to astronomers.
NASA will start accepting applications for its next class of astronaut candidates in November according to anew announcement it has made.
After conducting a thorough re-analysis of decade-old images from the Hubble Space Telescope using new techniques, Scientists have found visual evidence for two extrasolar planets that went undetected in 1998.
Daniel Shechtman, an Israeli scientist, won the 2011 Nobel Prize for chemistry for his work in the discovery of quasicrystals.
Pulsed gamma rays from the neutron star at the heart of the Crab Nebula with energies far higher than theoretical pulsar models can explain has been detected by scientists.
Advertisements have more influence on children's food choices than their parents, according to a study from Texas.
Astronomers have uncovered two elusive extrasolar planets that went undetected in image data from the Hubble Space Telescope for 13 years. The scientists painstakingly re-analyzed Hubble images from 1998 and stumbled upon visual evidence that the two planets went undetected back then.
Researchers have succeeded in creating human embryonic stem cells by injecting DNA from a skin cell into an unfertilized egg, according to a study.
Emergency room visits by children with concussions and other traumatic brain injuries from sports or other recreational activities have increased over the last decade according to a government report.
A usually humdrum Draconid meteor shower will kick it up a notch on Saturday when it will go into overdrive, peaking with some 750 meteors per hour, experts say.
Steve Jobs had a rare form of pancreatic cancer, called neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer, that allowed him to survive longer than expected.
Iowa health officials told reporters Wednesday that a pregnant woman suffered a miscarriage after eating cantaloupe containing listeria, a rare yet serious food-borne bacteria-caused illness that arose in early September.
CDC report shows that there has been a 60 percent increase in kids who come in for TBIs.
Jiminy Cricket from the movie Pinocchio was a top-hat-wearing, umbrella-toting crooner, but if researchers are right, the fictional cricket from Walt Disney would also have taken a bullet for the one he loved.
Iowa health officials told reporters Wednesday that a pregnant woman suffered a miscarriage after contracting listeriosis, a rare yet serious food-borne illness that arose in early September.
On Saturday, expect the night sky to be filled with meteors, according to astronomers.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs, 56, deemed irreplaceable by millions of fans of the operating system, died on Wednesday due to his long battle with a rare form of pancreatic cancer, beginning in 2004, when he underwent transplant surgery for it.
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine analyzed over over 300,000 free throws during five regular NBA seasons between 2005 and 2010 and concluded that the hot hand exists with individual players.
Sewage is home to thousands of novel, undiscovered viruses, some of which could relate to human health according to a new study.
