SCIENCE

Space shuttle Atlantis may be permanently stuck on earth, but the private space industry is preparing for blastoff.

Not only does it lead to a happier, healthier life, but optimism can reduce the risk of stroke according to a new study.

Private firms are competing to dominate a new market, and to boldly go where no company has gone before.

Drugs used to slow down multiple sclerosis may help patients but are unreasonably expensive, said a study Wednesday. The medications, disease-modifying drugs (DMDs) have been on the market since the 1990s and include beta interferons, glatiramer, and natalizumab.

Global warming, a detectable trend in the 1980s and 1990s, all but disappeared in the 2000s.

A huge release of methane gas may have triggered the prehistoric mass extinctions that allowed dinosaurs to become the dominant life form on earth, according to a new study.

Should people like Barbara test for Alzheimer's disease or is this a lose-lose situation? Currently prescribed drugs ease symptoms but only help half of the people who are treated and for less than a year on average.

HIV-positive men who have sex with other men are at a high risk of contracting the Hepatitis C virus through sex, according to a new study of men in New York City.

An irony: the U.S., which won the moon race to symbolize the superiority of democracy/free markets vs. communism/centrally-planned economy, will now relinquish delivery of humans into space to Russia.

Recent research says the European house mouse has become resistant to rodent poison.

Tall women face an increased risk of cancer, British researchers said. The study focused on British women and found that for every four inches added risk of cancer increases by 16 percent.

More than 85 percent of those who responded said they would see a doctor if they experienced any symptoms of memory loss.

On July 8, NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off for its final mission, a 12-day mission to the International Space Station. The return of the Space shuttle marked the end the 30-year shuttle era.

Pet frogs associated with a nationwide outbreak of salmonella poisoning are up for sale again in the U.S., and officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are peeved.

A new moon orbiting dwarf planet Pluto was discovered by scientists with the Space Telescope Science Institute (STSI), hinting at future surprises for the NASA probe.

The researchers reported that those with a history of heart disease, who stopped taking aspirin, had a 60 percent increased risk of a heart attack.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Tuesday that they will invest money across various initiatives, including funding eight universities across Africa, Asia, Europe and North America to 'reinvent the toilet'.

Space shuttle Atlantis landed for the final time at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 21, marking an end to the 30-year era of NASA's space shuttle program, but disasters that occurred in the history of the program still remain on our minds.

Discontinuing daily aspirin intake could increase a chance of heart attack by 60%

Thirty-eight soldiers that were deployed to the Middle East were diagnosed with constrictive bronchitis, an extremely rare condition in healthy young people, investigators said. Mean maximal oxygen consumption and anaerobic threshold was disturbingly lower in these soldiers compared to a group of historical controls, said Robert F. Miller, MD, of Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the blood-thinner Brilinta (ticagrelor) to cut the risk of heart attack and death in patients with acute coronary syndromes, or ACS.

The space shuttle Atlantis lands and officially ends the space shuttle program after 30 years.

Astronauts aboard the space-shuttle Atlantis landed just before 6am EST on Thursday, marking not only the end of the flight but end of NASA's 30-year shuttle program.

Dez Heal, 13, of Lynchburg, Va., was playing a Ninja game with his friends when a bamboo stick which he had decided to put the back of my shirt, impaled his neck.

The space shuttle Atlantis has landed -- for one last time. After a 26-year career and 307 days spent in space, shuttle Atlantis touched down for the last time at approximately 5:57 am Eastern. It landed at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The fossil of a 30cm lizard from the Early Cretaceous of China was found pregnant with more than 15 embryos at a level of skeletal development, in its body.

People with heart diseases who are not taking their daily aspirin dose are at an increased risk of heart attack.

Researchers may have found a way to detect Alzheimer’s disease up to 10 or 20 years before symptoms occur and can potentially treat the disease more effectively to slow down the effects.

A new study shows how the moon cycle determines when a lion will attack a human.