Straddling religion and medicine, the ancient practice may help treat infertility, skin diseases, and other ailments, according to doctors and the Dalai Lama.
A teenage girl who died two weeks ago tested positive yesterday for the H5N1 strain of the virus, making her the first bird flu victim in the war-torn nation.
NASA's THOR mission may blast an enormous crater on Mars in the hopes of unearthing evidence of water ice in the red planet's potentially habitable zones.
To follow the movements of cougars in remote areas of western North America, a team of biologists has found a different kind of tracking device: a virus that's the feline equivalent of HIV.
Spacecraft, heal thyself. Mixing materials science with a few ideas from medicine, aerospace engineers are developing self-repairing materials that "heal" themselves when damaged.
Glowing ropes, robots, and virtual reality may be the next canaries in the coal mines—devices that may address problems responsible for recent disasters.
Astronomers say they have discovered the most Earthlike planet ever detected outside our solar system, adding that our galaxy may be full of planets conducive to life.
Could Washington, D.C., end up where San Francisco is now? Not anytime soon, but a new report says continents are being pulled westward by the moon's gravity.
After a string of weather-related delays, NASA successfully launched its New Horizons spacecraft, sending it on a ten-year mission to Pluto and beyond.
Mundurucú Indians have a seemingly natural understanding of geometry concepts, even though their language doesn't have words for them, a new study says.
