China may have unwittingly introduced swine flu viruses when it imported pigs from Europeand North America for breeding over the past few decades, researchers said.
NASA is ending attempts to regain contact with the long-lived Mars exploration rover Spirit, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced Tuesday.
An extract from a mushroom can stop the growth of prostate cancer, Australian researchers said on Wednesday.
Health ministers from around the world agreed Tuesday to put off setting a deadline to destroy the last known stockpiles of the smallpox virus for three more years, rejecting a U.S. plan that had called for a five-year delay.
More and more Indian families with one girl are aborting subsequent pregnancies when prenatal tests show another female is on the way, according to a new study.
A pair of astronauts are spacewalking again outside the International Space Station.
France wants better regulation of the Internet. Google's executive chairman says policymakers should tread lightly and avoid "stupid" rules.
Every year, just more than four out of every thousand Swedish women are diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome, far fewer than those in the United States, according to a Swedish study.
"Manly" hands might signal an increased risk of suffering a knee injury, if one study is correct.
NASA is giving up on recovering its Mars rover Spirit, which it said likely fell victim to the planet's frigid winter after seven years of work, officials said on Tuesday.
Sony says it has discovered a security breach affecting 8,500 user accounts in a music entertainment website in Greece.
NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory spacecraft (Grail) will begin final preparations for a launch on a Moon mission in late summer, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said on Monday.
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