An international team of scientists suggest that Earth's moon is either 200 million years younger than widely believed or it has evolved differently over time based on test done on moon rocks.
Tests performed on a moon rock sample have led an international team of scientists to suggest that Earth's moon is either 200 million years younger than widely believed or it has evolved differently over time.
Three people are now dead after being exposed to a brain-eating amoeba that lives in fresh water around the world.
Every physician will face at least one malpractice claim over the course of his career, MedPage Today reported. The likelihood increases dramatically for neurosurgeons. Three of four malpractice are resolved with no payment to the plaintiff, researchers said.
New techniques to study rocks have led researchers to believe that the Earth's moon is actually much younger than previously predicted.
Sixteen-year-old Courtney Nash, who died from a brain infection last week after going for a swim in a Florida river, reportedly is the third person to die after being exposed to the waterborne amoeba Naegleria fowleri.
Data released on Wednesday by the Annie E. Casey Foundation in its annual KIDS COUNT Data Book, show that over the last decade there has been a significant decline in the economic well-being for low-income children and their families. The KIDS COUNT Data Center provides information about the 10 key measures tracked in the Data Book in addition to hundreds of other indicators of child well-being by state, county, city, and congressional district.
The moon may be younger than first thought, as new techniques have emerged that date moon rocks to a much more recent time.
Some information on a rare disease known as Naegleria fowleri, which has taken the lives of three people this summer.
Listen to the sound of meteors as they blaze through the highest levels of the Earth's atmosphere.
Three people have died so far this summer
The OSHA releases new details on the April death of Michele Dufault.
Nigeria Wednesday launched two satellites, NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X spacecraft, which have a variety of applications, including the monitoring of disaster-prone areas, into orbit from a launch pad based in Russia.
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Don Quijote Mission plans to launch two spacecraft that will fire into a test asteroid to study the possibility of diverting an impact to earth.
Reports suggest that a "brain-eating" amoeba called Naegleria fowleri has claimed yet another life in the United States, this time a nine-year-old boy in Virginia.
Scientists dubbed a newly discovered species of eel living in an underwater cave off the Republic of Palau in the Pacific Ocean as a 'living fossil' because of its similarity to the first eels that swam about 200 million years ago.
The drug Zelboraf has been approved to treat late-stage melanoma patients who have mutated BRAF proteins.
A 9-year-old Virgina boy died from a waterborne amoeba infection only days after a Florida teen was killed by the same ailment.
Russian space firm Orbital Technologies has unveiled plans to build a hotel in space.
Watching TV can shorten your lifespan by 22 minutes for every hour spent, according to a new study. Australian researchers found that for each hour of television watched, those aged 25 and older lose 22 minutes of their life, around the same amount of time a typical American TV show spanning an hour dedicates to commercials.
Researchers in Singapore re-engineered a harmless strain of bacteria to fight another common, drug-resistant microbe called Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which spreads in hospitals and is deadly to patients with weak immune systems, according to findings published in the journal Molecular Systems Biology on Tuesday.
Five tobacco companies filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the federal government, claiming that government-required graphic warning labels on cigarette packages are unconstitutional and that they violate their rights. "The primary complaint is that we think it violates the First Amendment for the government to require people who produce a lawful product to essentially urge prospective purchasers not to buy it," First Amendment case expert Floyd Abrams said.
Experts say some doctors may be too quick in treating patients with thyroid cancer a radioactive iodine drug, which helps those with advanced tumors, while it is unclear if the treatment is a benefit or not, according to a report by Chicago researchers.
NASA is preparing to launch a more advanced rover to delve even deeper into the history of Mars, just as its current rover is hitting its stride.
The world's largest rodent, the South American capybara, has been spotted in a California wastewater treatment plant.
The lost emperor penguin that strayed from its sub Antarctic home and ended up 4,000 km away on the New Zealand shore is all set to return to its icy abode in style onboard a research ship.
Amoeba Parasite has caused second death in a month's time. The victim is a nine-year-old boy from Virginia, who got infected with a dangerous freshwater amoeba, a Richmond Times-Dispatch report said.
Researchers at UCLA have explained why Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has what looks like an enormous white arrow about the size of Texas on its surface.
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MES) Opportunity after painstakingly covering a 13-mile journey in three years has reached the Red Planet's Endeavor crater.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday it may fail to achieve "cold shutdown" at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in January because of problems decontaminating radioactive water.
