Thousands of newborns could be saved if the U.S. and UK institute mandatory screening for life-threatening heart defects, according to a new study published Wednesday in the journal The Lancet.
Students from Arizona State University have come up with a novel way to reduce waste around the local dog park and cut energy costs using a "dog waste digester" -- a device that creates poo-powered electricity.
Now that the first anniversary of Osama Bin Laden's death shed renewed light on the "needle in the haystack" side of data analysis that helped catch him, investors might wonder how to take advantage of it.
Researchers using mice to explore the initial triggers of Alzheimer's disease believe they've fingered a prime suspect -- a highly toxic protein that converts other proteins into more toxic forms in a behavior that mimics mad cow disease.
Scientists have now found what they believe is are the oldest blood sample, scraped from 5,300 year old Ötzi the Iceman, whose body was uncovered by trekkers in the Italian Alps in 1991.
The first Boeing (NYSE: BA) 747-8 Intercontinental passenger airliner was delivered Wednesday at Frankfurt airport, flown directly to the headquarters of German airline Lufthansa from the Boeing factory in Everett, outside Seattle.
Garlic may be the best weapon against a type of bacteria responsible for millions of cases of food poisoning in the United States every year, according to a new study.
(Reuters) - A new strain of foot and mouth disease (FMD) has reached the Gaza Strip and threatens to spread further after first being detected in Egypt and Libya in February, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Wednesday.
(Reuters) - Scientists were out of this world on Tuesday about tests in icy Alpine caves of the technology needed for a mission to Mars one day.
(Reuters) - Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said there was a need to raise organ donation awareness and he encouraged the social network's members to speak up if they are donors.
(Reuters Health) - A baby is born every hour with signs of opiate drug withdrawal, according to a new study
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