Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has unveiled a luxury class upper-deck accommodation to make travelers feel they are in their own home on its Airbus A380. Dubbed as “The Residence by Etihad, the most luxurious living space in the air”, is among the new product and service offerings on its Airbus A380 and Boeing B787 …

UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Sunday urged “bold” actions by countries around the world to reduce greenhouse emissions and fight global warming. “Many of the solutions we need already exist. Many others are being rapidly developed. But we need to deploy them at a scale that matches the challenge,” said the U.N. chief.

An asteroid the size of a school bus narrowly missed Earth on Saturday, passing closer than the distance between the Earth and the moon, Space.com revealed. The 25-foot-wide asteroid, known as 2014 HL129, came within 186,000 miles of Earth’s surface. That’s about 53,000 miles closer than the average distance between Earth and the moon. If an asteroid of that size …

Novartis presented results from a pivotal Phase III trial of investigational therapy Signifor LAR in patients with acromegaly for whom current standard of care provides inadequate disease control. The company said the study findings showed that patients taking pasireotide long-acting release achieved greater disease control when compared to continued treatment with the standard somatostatin analogue therapies, octreotide LAR or lanreotide …

Injecting old mice with blood from younger mice improved their cognitive abilities along with promoting new neuron growth in their spinal cords, researchers found — further evidence that some factor in blood keeps regenerative processes going for a time, but then disappears with aging.

At least three people are confirmed dead and several others injured after an explosive went off in a bus in Mombasa. The Chania Bus in Mwembe Tayari in the Kenyan coastal town of Mombassa was on board on Saturday evening when the attackers hurled an explosive into the bus causing the deaths and the injuries of several people who are …

Scientist said on Wednesday that Mount St. Helens is showing signs of long-term build up and earthquake activity. However, they don’t believe that the southwest Washington state volcano threatens to erupt any time soon.

A new constipation treatment may help sufferers who are unable to find relief through traditional medication. The oral capsule mimics the body’s natural waste removal process and helps to stimulate the movement of stool along the digestive tract. In clinical trials, the capsule was found to nearly double the weekly bowel movements of patients with digestive troubles.

Sperm engineered from human skin cells might offer hope to those men who suffer from infertility, according to a new study. The study, published in the journal Cell Reports, found that after being implanted into the testes of mice, the samples generated into early-stage sperm cells. Scientists said that although “cell precursors” were insufficient to support conception, the breakthrough suggests …

For the past two decades parents have been urged to place babies on their backs in hopes of reducing the prevalence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), but many have not gotten the message. The recent study also suggests healthcare providers have not worked hard enough to get the message out, an American Academy of Pediatrics news release reported. Supine …

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” …