UCSF study examines patient bills for top 10 visits to the emergency room.
A shark killed an award-winning director in New Zealand as he swam alone some 650 feet from the shore, resulting in authorities opening fire in order to scare away the Great White and other sharks that had gathered, according to local reports.
High-density ceramic materials like zirconia can be hardened much faster and by much lower temperatures with two recently developed new techniques, Field-Assisted Sintering (FAST) and Selective Laser Sintering (SLS). While the effectiveness was shown experimentally in the past, a detailed uniform mo...
SpaceX is set to launch of Friday its second official cargo supply mission to the Space Station.
Fossil evidence has allowed scientists to reconstruct the Helicoprion, the ancient spiral-toothed fish.
Healthy marriages are certainly important, but a new study published in the Journal of health and Social Behavior shows that some marriages may be healthier than others.
Scientists have discovered the world's deepest undersea volcanic vents in the Cayman Trough, 3.1 miles below the surface of the ocean.
After a lye attack left a Vermont mother legally blind and disfigured, a face transplant at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston will give her a much needed new outlook on life.
A team led by millionaire and former space tourist, Dennis Tito, plans to send a married couple to Mars in less than five years.
Adolescents who received the A/N1N1 2009 influenza vaccine during the pandemic in England have an increased risk of narcolepsy according to a recent study.
One of the seven satellites orbited by an Indian rocket yesterday has a Google Nexus smartphone connected as its central control unit! For anyone who saw the hilarious comedy Ironsky about the space nazi invasion from moon last year, this sounds familiar--after all, the "discovery" of an iPhone as t...
NASA has measured the spin rate of a supermassive black hole for the first time.
