SCIENCE

A new study concluded that working out just half as much as most doctors recommend is significantly better than sitting around.

Scientists in Singapore are designing "suicide bomber" bacteria that kill a harmful microbe called pseudomonas aeruginosa. Those bacteria, which commonly infect hospital patients with compromised immune systems, target tissue and can cause fatal infections.

Oxygen may have been made on Earth hundreds of millions of years before it breathed new life into the atmosphere, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, discovered. The MIT researchers suggest that oxygen may have been laying low in what they call "oxygen oases" in the oceans, long before the Great Oxidation Event, or GOE. Researchers have found evidence that small aerobic organisms may have evolved to survive on extremely low levels of oxygen in undersea oases.....

The European Space Agency is looking to test to see if it's possible divert an asteroid headed for Earth. The mission, called Don Quixote, is already underway at the ESA, and will help the agency learn more about how the Earth can defend itself against any potential asteroid collision threat. The project is slated for 2015.

Researchers set up more than 400 hidden cameras in order to capture images of some of the world's most elusive mammals. A group of biologists successfully captured 52,000 images of some of the most fear-inducing creatures on this planet.

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.

A Taiwanese study found that at least 15 minutes of exercise each day can increase life expectancy among inactive adults and reduce the risk for multiple illnesses.

A study led by Julie Elie from the University of California Berkeley found that male zebra finches formed strong homosexual bonds that were just as loving and affectionate as their heterosexual counterparts.

Roughly 52,000 snapshots of rare, exotic mammals were taken by a group of international scientists with camera-traps earlier this week, offering a global view of declining mammal populations. The study caught animals in protected wildlife areas of Brazil, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Laos, Suriname, Tanzania and Uganda.

A new drug, dubbed 'DRACO' by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, works by targeting a type of RNA produced only in virus-infected cells.

The gigantic white cloud that appears on Titan's surface may be the result of planetary-scale atmospheric waves, scientists say.

New developments in the five deaths that occurred in the northern region of Thailand

See an incredible set of snapshots of rare mammals revealed Tuesday by a group of international scientists captured with camera-traps earlier this week, offering a global view of declining mammal populations.

New data has shown that Arctic sea ice levels plunged to a record low for the month of July in more than three decades of record-keeping.

New research results showed that tiny amount of radioactive sulfur leaked from the Fukushima nuclear meltdown in March reached California within days, but researchers now say that the amount was not dangerous to health.

Since NASA has retired its space shuttle program, a private rocket company has stepped in to fill the gap and is in the process of readying a capsule for a liftoff to deliver cargo to the International Space Station.

Researchers estimate that every hour an adult spends watching TV, their life expectancy shortens by almost 22 minutes. Watching TV for six hours a day can cut short one's life by five years.

NASA has released a dramatic image showing a pair of galaxies on a collision course about 450 million light years from Earth.

Tropical plants, long considered a major counterforce to human-induced increase in global carbon dioxide, may not yield such a big net reduction effect after all.

Tiny amounts of radioactive isotopes of sulfur, believed to have traveled by wind across the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, were detected in California, scientists say. But the amounts detected weren't in any way harmful, says Mark Thiemens, a professor of chemistry at the University California, San Diego.

All 50 U.S. states and territories will be able to boost their public health emergency preparedness capabilities as the federal Department of Health and Human Services awarded more than $613 million to strengthen all-hazards emergency preparedness.

Dead plant material from trees may release carbon through the forest soil

The astronauts will take part in a series of public events. On Aug. 16, the crew will visit the American Museum of Natural History where they will answer questions from children in attendance at the event that is free with museum admission. They will also appear on The Colbert Report later that night, according to the SPACE.com article.

Two studies published Monday suggest re-framing the way medical practitioners look at overweight and obese patients. The studies question the notion that BMI and weight determine health - even when someone is severely obese.

More than 60,000 pounds of ground beef supplied by National Beef have been recalled after officials at the Ohio Department of Agriculture discovered the batch was contaminated with E. coli.

One in five siblings of autistic children are at risk of being autistic themselves

Marine wanted to donate his organs to members of the military

A Florida teenager who died over the weekend from a suspected amoeba infection became an organ donor at age 14, according to her mother.

A camp in Virginia has no traditional activities such as fishing or swimming but it provides young women with statistics scarier than any campfire story - a possible HIV/AIDS diagnosis.