Scientists announced on Wednesday that they had identified 29 new genes linked to multiple sclerosis, offering clues about how to potentially treat the debilitating disease.
Mothers can prenatally influence their babies' taste palates during pregnancy, which can offer some evidence explaining for cultural and ethnic differences in food preference, according to new research.
For females, talking to a guy's best buddy may not only stir up drama in the relationship, but also in the sack as a result of increased symptoms of sexual dysfunction.
New research revealed that widely available blood tests that predict gender are extremely accurate. Furthermore, the tests work more than seven months before the baby is born.
Over 20 rare polar dinosaur footprints have been discovered in Victoria, Australia, dating back to 105 million years ago- making them the largest and best preserved collection of polar dinosaur tracks in the Southern Hemisphere
Starting in the second semester of the coming school year, New York City's public middle and high school students will be required to take sexual and reproductive health courses.
Researchers find that dialysis does not help blacks.
A new solar flare Tuesday is the biggest in several years and is part of a pattern of solar storms scheduled to last until 2020, experts say.
Researchers concluded that elderly women who suffer from sleep apnea are considerably more likely to develop dementia as well as other signs of cognitive decline.
Axial Seamount, a volcano off the coast of Oregon, erupted in April - right on schedule
Boy or Girl? A controversial new blood test, not yet available in the U.S. could determine a fetus' sex as early as seven weeks for soon-to-be parents.
The mysterious orange goo that washed up on the Alaskan village of Kivalina has been identified as microscopic eggs, but the origin of the eggs remains unknown.
The evolution of multicellular life billions of years ago was an act of serendipity, a new study by scientists at Harvard University has found. Scientists who studied how yeast cells better manipulate their food environment when they are in clumps, and not single, showed that cells that bound together with neighboring ones had better food intake capacity.
The Cleveland volcano, located in the Alaskan island of Chuginadak, has been erupting without posing threat to life in the surrounding area. According to an AP report the volcano is undergoing slow eruption with no accompanying explosion and doesn't generate ash clouds.
A recent study relates irregular breathing as a measure of oxygen deficiency during sleep, leading to memory loss at later stages.
Why don't humans give up hopes on spotting intelligent extra-terrestrial life? Because we haven't got any categorical evidence which suggests that alien life is non-existent and until proven otherwise extra-terrestrials could exist. Though probability of intelligent alien life is an intensely debated topic, SETI (Search for extraterrestrial intelligence- collective name for a number of activities people undertake to search for intelligent extraterrestrial life) is in the lookout for an ali...
An Antarctic ice shelf that had remained unshuffled for 46 years was broken by the Japanese tsunami in March, scientists have discovered. The Sulzberger Ice Shelf in the Antarctic registered the impact of the Japanese tsunami in 18 hours, when a huge iceberg began disintegrating and floating off to the Ross Sea.
The space agency has signed contracts on 30 new grants, hoping for a wave of innovation on new projects.
The best time to spot the annual Perseid meteor shower is this week, when the number of particles hitting the atmosphere is at its peak. Perseid shower is caused by debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle and has been observed for 2000 years. It normally peaks at 100 or more meteors per hour in the absence of moonlight on new moon.
A person is being treated for an anthrax infection in Minnesota. The FBI has determined that it was not a terrorist act.
A powerful tsunami in Japan back in March sent waves more than 8,000 miles away that sliced off icebergs in Antarctica twice the surface area of Manhattan, NASA scientists say. Details of the finding, the first observation of its kind, can be found in an article published in the Journal of Glaciology.
But the mystery still isn't quite solved because the exact species of the egg is unknown and scientist say they don't know if the eggs are toxic, and may never know what caused so many eggs to wash up on the shores Kivalina, an Inupiat Eskimo community located at the tip of a barrier reef on Alaska's northwest coast.
Scientists have new evidence that life on Earth may have come from space after finding essential building blocks of DNA in meteorites discovered in Antarctica.
The sun emitted a powerful solar flare on Tuesday, which is the largest in five years, but the bursts of radiation weren't in the direction of Earth and so there will be little impact on satellite and communication systems, scientists say.
A new study scientists at the University of Miami has overturned the popularly held belief that Soy pills are an alternative for estrogen therapy during menopause.
The Tsunami generated by the powerful earthquake that shook Japan on March 11 sent waves an entire hemisphere away that sliced off about 50 square miles of icebergs in Antarctica that were twice the surface area of Manhattan, NASA scientists say. Kelly Brunt, a cryosphere specialist at Goddard Space Flight Center, and her colleagues were able to link the calving of icebergs from the Sulzberger Ice Shelf in Antarctica following tsunami that sent waves 8,100 miles away.
The eruption of undersea volcano Axial Seamount, off the coast of Oregon, was actually predicted by a team of scientists at Oregon State University.
The solar eruption was facing away from the Earth, averting potentially major disruptions.
Some U.S. hospitals said that 100% of patients undergoing a procedure that detects obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) were found to have CAD while others reported that as little as 23 percent of patients selected for elective catheterization did not actually have blockages, a recent study said. Researchers evaluated 565,504 patients with no known heart disease who underwent elective cardiac catheterization at 691 hospitals nationwide over a 3-year period and found extreme inconsistency.
Plastic surgery among octogenarians, driven by the media's objective preoccupation with youth and beauty, has been gaining momentum. "Physically, I'm in good health, and I just feel like, why not take advantage of it?" 83-year-old Marie Kolstad, who had her breasts lifted and received implants in July, told the New York Times.
