SCIENCE

In a major breakthrough in prostate cancer treatment, a new drug has been shown to prolong survival in patients with advanced prostate cancer.

Doctors felt it would be unethical to deny the placebo group the drug

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, believe they are on their way to learning, and possibly seeing, what exactly is going on in the human mind through advancements in brain imaging.

A 6-ton defunct NASA satellite has fallen back to Earth Saturday, but officials are not sure of the exact location of the debris that rained into the Pacific Ocean.

A 100-year-old Aborigine lock of hair is leading scientists to rewrite the history of human migration out of Africa as we know it.

Computational scientists have forecasted the presence of numerous human proteins that are required by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to replicate itself. These, constitute a powerful resource for experimentalists who desire to discover new targets for human proteins that can control the spread of HIV, noted study authors.

NASA has released a spectacular new image that shows all five moons of Saturn suspended around the rings of the planet.

Scientists at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and the Georgia Institute of Technology have shown they can turn back the biological clock in human adult stem cells, which helps regenerate old or damaged tissues.

A trial drug from Germany's Bayer and Norwegian biotech Algeta is found to be prolonging the lives of patients with advanced prostate cancer.

Discovery of particles that travel faster than the speed of light: Could it perhaps be the most embarrassing claim that the scientists have made in the recent times? Scientists worldwide are baffled and shocked at the claims made by scientists at CERN, the world's largest physics lab near Geneva on Thursday night. They announced that they have found tiny particles called neutrinos that can travel faster than light.

Doubts over chronic fatigue syndrome and links to the XMRV virus, thought to be responsible for the condition, have been raised by a new research study.

Scientists from California have figured out a way to use brain activity measurements to reconstruct natural movies seen by an observer.

NASA's huge six and a half ton Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite(UARS) continues to plummet towards the Earth and is expected to fall to the Earth sometime late Friday night or early Saturday morning. The 20-year-old satellite was expected to fall to Earth sometime on Friday afternoon.

Privacy curtains that often separate medical care spaces in hospitals and clinics are frequently contaminated with potentially dangerous bacteria, according to a recent U.S. study.

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 55 people in 14 states have now been confirmed as sickened from eating contaminated cantaloupe, while eight have died.

Wanda Sykes discusses breast cancer and double mastectomy on Ellen DeGeneres’ show.

Scientists from 16 countries will converge in the Indian Ocean next month and pool their resources to conduct a six-month field study on how tropical weather developed in that ocean affects weather patterns in other parts of the world.

Woman in California's Contra Costa County infected with West Nile virus.

Patients arrive at the hospital to get better, but the bacteria lurking in hospital privacy curtains could be making them sick, a new study warned.

According to research from the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health the number of self-reported mental health disabilities was 2 percent between 1997 and 1999. That figure increased to 2.7 percent between 2007 and 2009, which researchers say is almost nearly two million disabled adults.

When an Aboriginal man from Western Australia gave a lock of his hair to a British anthropologist in the early 20th century, it opened up a way for researchers to piece together his genome.

NASA officials and research teams spent the past few weeks playing a guessing game on where and when debris from the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite will land. The latest estimates Friday morning delayed the satellite's time of re-entry and increased the possibility that Carter may encounter debris. On Thursday, NASA officials said that there was no chance that the debris would land in North America.

Environmentalists can breath a little easier after the Food and Drug Administration announced that it was banning over-the-counter asthma inhalers, citing hazardous chemicals the spray emits.

I had breast cancer. Yeah, I know it's scary, comedienne Wanda Sykes revealed in an interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, airing Monday, Sept. 26.

A defunct NASA satellite is expected to plunge back to earth on Friday, raising concerns that blazing hot debris may shower down on the unsuspecting terrestrial population.

Traveling to past has been part of only sci-fi world, but latest findings of a team of scientists could bring this into reality.

Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have increased by 45 per cent in the past two decades and reached an all-time high in 2010, says a report.

The privacy curtains that separate care spaces in hospitals and clinics are frequently contaminated with potentially dangerous bacteria, according to a U.S. study.

In a discovery that could question Einstein's longstanding fundamental laws of the universe, an international team of scientists announced Thursday they had successfully recorded sub-atomic particles travelling at speeds faster than light.