October 21, 2015 How a Virginia suburb became an Ebola epicenter It’s a little known fact, or perhaps a dark matter best forgotten, but the child care facility on Isaac Newton Square in Reston, Va., was once the epicenter of a new strain of Ebola.
October 21, 2015 Geckos' sticky secret? They hang by toe hairs Geckos are famous for their ability to scale vertical walls and even hang upside down, and now scientists understand more about how the expert climbers can pull off these gravity-defying feats: Geckos can quickly turn the stickiness of their feet on and off, a new study finds
October 21, 2015 Ebola bomb: Possible, but not so easy to make If some worst-case scenarios are to be believed, then terrorist groups could use the recent outbreak of Ebola in Africa to their advantage.
October 21, 2015 Mantis shrimp see colors like no other creatue New research finds that the aggressive mantis shrimp is weird in a strange way: They see color like no other animal on the planet.
October 21, 2015 Genetics breakthrough enables scientists to edit any part of human genome, report claims A new technique has enabled scientists to engineer parts of the human genome with extreme precision, a breakthrough which could mean new treatment possibilities for maladies such as cancer, HIV, and inherited genetic disorders.
October 21, 2015 The telltale heartbeat? Head wobble indicates pulse A new computer program can take someone's pulse without laying a finger on them. It analyzes videos of people trying to hold still and spots a tiny tic that betrays every heartbeat.
October 21, 2015 Brain cells can outlive the body Brain cells can live at least twice as long as the organisms in which they reside, according to new research
October 21, 2015 The real story of North Korea's unicorn lair North Korean state media has reported the discovery of the lair of a unicorn ridden by an ancient Korean king.
October 21, 2015 Artificial muscles built from 'carbon yarn' Muscles made from twisted strands of carbon yarn were able to pull more than 100,000 times their own weight in recent tests.
October 21, 2015 British, Japanese scientists win Nobel medicine prize British researcher John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan have won this year's Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering that cells of the body can be reprogrammed into stem cells
