NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed the ancient origin of Saturn's rings and moons, dating back to our solar system's birth.
The company Biogen Idec has won the approval of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its drug to treat adults with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS), which affects the person's central nervous system. The drug, called 'Tecfidera', is the company's third approved drug but is the first d...
The female sea lion pup created a stir as it waddled its way from the California beach into the nearby luxury hotel where it settled cosily along the poolside inclining itself at the patio bar.
A Brazilian doctor, Virginia Soares de Souza, is being investigated by the Brazilian health authority on being charged with killing seven terminally-ill patients in order to free up hospital beds.
A British couple gave birth to a baby weighing 15 pounds 7 ounces, twice the size of an average newborn. Reports according to The Christian Post claim that the baby, weighing 7 kgs, is the second-biggest newborn ever delivered vaginally in the United Kingdom.
An earthquake killed one person and injured at least 86 others in Taiwan on Wednesday and officials say it occurred on a "blind fault" which could produce a far stronger earthquake in the future.
Three scuba divers were arrested off the coast Egypt by the country's naval forces as they attempted to cut through an undersea Internet cable on Wednesday, according to various reports.
In the largest DNA study ever, scientists analyzed the genetic code of 200,000 people - half with cancer and the other half without. By finding the differences, the researchers could identify over 80 regions of the human genome so far that, when found in an individual, means an increased risk of cer...
A full piston pump-powered rocket engine prototype was test-fired by XCOR Aerospace, which marks a first in aviation and space history. The company hopes that this breakthrough could be the foundation for fully reusable spacecraft that can fly multiple times per day, every day just like jet planes.
The ESO 8.2-meter Very Large Telescope made this amazing image of "the lost galaxy" NGC 4535, which is one of the largest galaxies in the massive Virgo Cluster. This mega cluster consists of as many as 2000 galaxies and is about 50 million light-years away. Although the Virgo Cluster is not much lar...
Two receptor molecules for the natural neurotransmitter serotonin, representing a crucial messaging mechanism in our brain that influences our conciousness, have now been deciphered by researchers employing X-ray crystallography to analyze the compounds at an atomic level.
Fruit flies that ate organic fruit were healthier than those that ate nonorganic products, according to a new study.
