France is set to ban the import of live pigs, pork-based byproducts and pig sperm from the United States, Canada, Mexico and Japan to ward off a virus that has killed millions of piglets in North America and Asia, a farm ministry official has confirmed.
In the race to colonize Mars, microbes may end up the big winners.So says new research from the International Space Station and which was included in the conclusions of three recent papers that appeared in the journal Astrobiology: : "Survival of Rock-Colonizing Organisms After 1.5 Years in Outer Space," " Resistance of Bacterial Endospores to Outer Space for Planetary Protection Purposes" and "Survival of Bacillus Pumilus Spores for a Prolonged Period of Time in Real Space Conditions."
New research more than a mile beneath the ocean's surface has revealed a dynamic struggle between viruses and bacteria that scientists can trace to beginnings of life on Earth.
The discovery of a second version of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, painted from a slightly different visual viewpoint from the original artwork, suggests the Italian master created his famous portrait as a 3-D image.
The answer to one of the great questions of all time -- "How did the Egyptians build the pyramids?" -- has apparently been in sight for hundreds of years, but previously dismissed by scientists as a form of ritual.
Researchers from China have just released a winning strategy for one of the most simple yet arguably greatest games ever played by humankind: rock-paper-scissors.
Mount St. Helens, the volcano in Western Washington state located approximately 70 miles northeast of Portland, Ore., is showing signs of extended magma build-up and seismic activity, but there's no evidence of an eruption soon.
Conservationists have announced plans to plan to sue the federal government over new rules they say diminishes protection for eagles, particularly bald eagles, killed by wind farm turbines.
A federal court has taken the fire out of a military satellite launch contract granted through an uncontested selection process earlier this year, on the grounds it may violate recent sanctions imposed on Russia March 16 over its invasion of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula.
Researchers from Pittsburgh, Penn., say they've successfully tested a way to repair and regenerate human muscle mass by implanting scaffolding material made of animal cells.
In the first report of its kind, the World Health Organization has announced antibiotic resistance --- when bacteria change to the point antibiotics can no longer stem the infections they cause --- has become a serious threat across the globe.
While the National Aeronautics and Space Administration publicly announced it would continue cooperating with Russia over the International Space Station despite the international standoff caused by the invasion of Ukraine's Crimean region, the Russian space agency is now saying it may keep American astronauts from even reaching the orbiting laboratory.
Scientists using an underwater robot to explore three shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Galveston, Texas, have found what looks like a solidified eruption from a deep-sea volcano.
New archeological data is giving a new reason for the Geico Insurance cave man to celebrate.An extensive review of recent Neanderthal studies by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder has concluded that evidence does not support the longstanding opinion that Neanderthals were less advanced than anatomically modern humans.
Air quality in the United States is a stark contrast between a overall pollution levels that have continually dropped in recent years, but the presence of the serious irritant ozone, or, smog, which is more widespread than it was in 2013.
United Launch Alliance, the commercial space transport collaboration between aerospace builders Lockheed Martin and The Boeing Company, has lobbed a counter statement at the legal challenge it faces over its recently-awarded Air Force satellite launch contract.
Despite ongoing concerns seafood from the Pacific Ocean may be contaminated after Japan's 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima, new research from Oregon State University asserts tuna caught off the Oregon shore pose very little if any health risk.
While laughter has long been believed to benefit overall health, new research from Loma Linda University in California identifies many of the physical functions improved by a heartfelt howl.
Mice and rats, long the experiment subjects of choice by scientists throughout the world, apparently get overly stressed out around men, according to new research from McGill University in Montreal, and that stress, in turn, leaves the rodents less receptive to stimuli and, arguably, less reliable for tests.
The International Space Station may be going commercial. That, at least, is one idea being floated by officials at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, as they seek out new funding streams and uses for the orbiting space laboratory.
As Capt. James T Kirk in the original "Star Trek" television series, William Shatner guided his fictional crew where nobody "has gone before," and motivated real-life generations of youth to pursue careers in science and space exploration.
The United States' leading cargo transport company for the International Space Station is challenging the U.S. Air Force's award of a multi-billion-dollar, non-compete contract for 36 rocket launches to two long-time aerospace contractors, Lockheed Martin and Boeing, under the United Launch Alliance partnership.
A zoo in northern Mexico recently welcomed an unusual animal into the world, a rare creature known as a zonkey, although also called a zedonk or donkra.
