Now, a group of researchers from the department of Laboratory Medicine at the Karolinksa Institute in Sweden have worked on developing a more donor-friendly alternative that involves testing through exhaled breath.
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has officially entered orbit around the dwarf planet, Ceres, as of 7:39 a.m. EST on Friday, March 6. This is the first time any spacecraft has ever achieved a successful orbit around a dwarf planet.
El Niño has finally arrived. The long-awaited weather system has the potential to change patterns across the globe, bringing rain to drought-stricken areas.
Baby praying mantises can perform some spectacular leaps. Now, scientists have used high-speed video to capture some of these amazing jumps.
When it comes to whales, grandma may be in charge. Scientists have found that menopausal female killer whales not only serve as key leaders, but also live almost twice as long as males. Now, scientists may have an answer as to why this is the case.
Settling on Mars isn't going to be easy, though plans are moving forward. Now, scientists have created an innovative new technique that may allow Martian colonists to harvest energy from carbon dioxide.
An "extinct" bird that hadn't been seen since 1941 has been rediscovered. Scientists have found the Jerdon's babbler, Chrysomma altirostre, alive and well in the grasslands near the town of Myitkyo in Myanmar.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a distant supernova split into four images for the very first time. The multiple images of the exploding star are due to the powerful gravity of a foreground elliptical galaxy embedded in a massive cluster of galaxies.
It turns out that Mars may have held more water than Earth's Arctic Ocean and covered a great portion of the planet's surface than the Atlantic. Scientists have found that the Red Planet was once watery, and that it lost its ocean over time.
Previous studies have linked an increased risk of the behavioral health issue, Autism, to numerous environmental health conditions. However, a recent study links genetic makeup to 74 to 98 percent of cases.
New findings published in Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the basic science journal of the American Gastroenterological Association, show how a better understanding of the stomach's immune response to Helicobater pylori (H. pylori) infection could lead to new therapies that t...
New findings published in the Journal of Agriculture & Food Chemistry took a step in the past at some of the oldest preserved beer samples from an 1840's shipwreck to work on providing insight into just how they were made.
