SCIENCE

Continually rising health care costs will account for one fifth of America's gross domestic product by 2020, a trend that will be driven only slightly by the Affordable Care Act, according to government analysis.

There is no link between cell phone use by children and brain cancer, a new European study concluded. Repeated studies in adults have also failed to find a direct relationship.

A 2007 fire that covered more than 400 square miles of Alaska tundra is providing new clues into the effects that an increase of fires in the Arctic tundra will have on climate change.

A robotic probe, Juno, was hoisted onto an unmanned Atlas 5 rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Wednesday in preparation for a launch into the heart of Jupiter. The Juno probe is scheduled to spend a year cycling inside Jupiter's deadly radiation belts to learn how much water the planet holds, what triggers its vast magnetic fields, and whether a solid core lies beneath its dense, hot atmosphere.

Public health officials say roughly 130 million injection drug users worldwide suffer from hepatitis C, according to a study published online by World Health Organization said on Tuesday in The Lancet, which coincides with 'World Hepatitis Day.'

Some say it was a devastating asteroid, but a new, controversial hypothesis argues that massive lava eruptions may have ended the age of the dinosaurs.

A new report from paleontologist Xing Xu and his colleagues at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, detailed the finding of a similar species, called Xiaotingia zhengi, dating back 155 million years to the Jurassic Period.

NASA's Juno Spacecraft was secured to its rocket on Wednesday morning, ready to embark on its journey to Jupiter.

A study published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery found that patients who complain about the size or shape of their noses often have signs of mental illness. The study found that one in three people seeking rhinoplasty show signs of body dysmorphic disorder.

In 2007, the Anaktuvuk River fire swept across more than 400 square miles, doubling the cumulative size of Alaskan tundra affected by fire since 1950.

It has seen the starry heavens, but at the end of its life cycle, the International Space Station is set to see the bottom of the deep blue sea.

A team of Swiss scientists investigated more than 350 children aged between 7 and 19.

Planetary scientists examined information from European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel space observatory and determined that Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn, is raining water vapors that form a huge donut-shaped ring around Saturn.

A recent study published in the July issue of The National Cancer Institute's journal found that children and teens who use cell phones are not at an increased risk of brain cancer compared to their peers who do not use cell phones.

Since the dawning of cellular phones researchers have pondered whether there existed a link between usage and brain cancer, but evidence for both sides always emerges.

One of the biggest questions physicists usually face is why the sun's corona -- its outer atmosphere -- is so hot, but it seems the latest research may bring them one step closer to solving the mystery.

The World Health Organization (WHO) released data stating that about 1.4 million people suffer from hepatitis A (HAV) alone. Together, Hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C (HCV) are the leading causes of liver cancer in the world, accounting for 78 percent of cancer related cases. An important aspect of the report states that most people who have contracted the virus are more often than not unaware of the infection.

South Korean scientists have created a glowing dog using a cloning technique that could help find cures for human diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, a Yonhap news agency reported on Wednesday.

Earth has joined a group of planets like Jupiter, Neptune and Mars which have Trojan asteroids as companions as they move around the sun in their orbits.

For modern science hunting its holy grail, a lot is at stake. Higgs boson is the lynchpin of the modern particle physics theory called the Standard Model.

Archaeopteryx, the legendary winged creature long known as the oldest and most primitive bird on Earth, may not have been a bird at all, Chinese scientists reveal.

The recently concluded sixth IAS conference on HIV pathogenesis, treatment and prevention in Rome proved optimistic as the World Health Organization (WHO) promised to release its HIV guidelines for counseling discordant couples in the next two months.

A meteor shower is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to radiate from one point in the night sky.

South Korean scientists said on Wednesday they have created a glowing dog using a cloning technique that could help find cures for human diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, Yonhap news agency reported.

Astronomers studying data from an orbiting NASA observatory discovered the first known Trojan of the Earth.

A black hole is a region in space where the pulling force of gravity is so strong that light is not able to escape.

In 1861, the discovery of the archaeopteryx fossil was a big deal. The fossil had feathered wings like a bird but teeth and bony tail like a reptile.

Ancient texts found in Egypt have been released by Oxford University in hopes the public can aid in deciphering the ancient Greek text, which could possibly be the "Lost Gospel."

Children and adolescents who use cell phones are not at risk for getting brain cancer, according to a recent study, though further research will be conducted to show long-term effects of cell phone usage.