After careful deliberation, scientists have chosen the Gale crater as the landing site for the Mars rover Curiosity.
American scientists are considering inserting human brain cells into mice. In Britain, it is illegal to conduct experiments involving the combination of human cells and the great ape family.
The Harvard School of Public Health and Alzheimer Europe conducted a telephone survey of 2,678 people who were at least 18 years of age across the U.S. and Europe, and they found that about 25 percent of responders feared getting the disease.
African Dwarf Frogs that caused a nationwide Salmonella outbreak since April 2009 are back on sale again, reported the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
African dwarf frogs are being sold again, reported the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The scavenger frogs, who eat anything living, dying or dead, were responsible for a nationwide Salmonella outbreak since April 2009.
In a report released this week, Clinical Preventive Services for Women: Closing the Gaps, the Institute of Medicine recommends the full range of Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptive methods, sterilization procedures, and patient education and counseling for all women with reproductive capacity.
The heat wave that was spread from the Midwest to the Northeast objectively annoyed millions and blackouts and weather-related deaths ran rampant. The National Weather Service issues a warning of excessive heat in many states including Oklahoma, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
Researchers announced Friday that they detected what is believed to be the first glimpse of the Higgs boson, or God particle.
The findings come from two teams in Geneva, at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern, the European particle physics lab where the world's most powerful atom smasher is.
Optimism reduces risk of stroke, said a new research report in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. The study surveyed 6044 adults over 50 and asked them to rate their level of optimism according to a 16 point scale.
African dwarf frogs are back on sale, reported the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The small aquatic frogs were responsible for a nationwide Salmonella (salmonellosis) outbreak.
Stars, like the sun, are sources that emit (for a portion of its life) light from its body into space. When light is emitted into space from a single point of origin - but that point of origin isn't a star -astronomers call that point a quasi-stellar (i.e. star) radio source, or quasar.
'Xtreme Eating Awards' were given by the Center for Science in the Public Interest to eight high-calorie foods available at American restaurants.
Brine-injected meat is composed of 40 percent salt water, said the U.S. Department of Agriculture Friday. The USDA proposed a rule that will require companies to disclose the information.
Having an optimist mind can cut ones chances stroke according to according to new research reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday that brine-injected meat is composed of 40 percent salt water and proposed a rule that would require companies to disclose this information. Currently, raw meat and poultry products that contain added solutions such as water, teriyaki sauce, salt, or a mixture thereof may have the same name on their labels as products that do not contain added solutions, said a USDA statement Friday.
European astronomers have found the most distant and earliest quasar to date.
The Gale crater has been chosen as the landing site of the next Mars mission.
Most of the huge black holes in the centers of galaxies in the past 11 billion years were not activated by galactic collisions, as had been previously thought, a new study reveals.
Experiments that create animal-human hybrids should be more rightly regulated, a group of British scientists said in a new report.
An 18-year old West Point cadet died while participating in field drills on Thursday and the most recent heat wave might be to blame.
The World Health Organization has strongly advised against using blood tests for tuberculosis, citing the tests' unreliability and dangerousness.
British researchers called for guidelines in experiments that implant human genes or cells in animals, warning of ethical issues in the rapidly developing field of research.
Mobile phones and other stereo 3D devices are causing viewer eyestrain, fatigue, and headaches, according to a new study published in a recent Journal of Vision.
NASA has picked the Gale crater to be the landing site of the Mars rover Curiosity.
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Now that NASA's shuttle program has ended, a a new constellation of companies is set to respond to the sudden demand for firms with the capability to transport humans to the International Space Station, and eventually the moon.
Tea and herbal brews contain unlabeled and surprising ingredients in them, according to a study by three New York City high school students under the supervision of staff at Rockefeller University. The study is published in Scientific Reports.
The landing of the Atlantis space shuttle that put an end to 500 million miles of space travel on Thursday has sparked lights in Billionaire Richard Branson's entrepreneurial mind as he prepares to make space tourism possible.
NASA discusses the latest Mars Rover and its plans to visit the red planet.
Now that NASA's shuttle program has ended, a new constellation of companies is set respond to the sudden demand for firms with the capability to transport humans to the International Space Station and eventually the moon.