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The sun is giving a spectacular celestial New Year gift to skywatchers in the form of aurora. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecasts that a massive solar eruption is all set to hit earth’s sky just before New Year's Eve.

It will be a spectacular show for those in the right latitudes, NOAA reported. The federal agency also forecasted that the aurora will dip down to Oregon. There are chances that the Bay Area will also be able to see the celestial show. NOAA’s physicist Terry Onsager said, “It's certainly possible. It depends entirely on the strength of the storm. If it turns out to be stronger than that, it could be seen”.

A humanoid robot created by researchers from Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University is giving jitters to robotic enthusiasts as the machine resembles its developers in both appearance and presence of a personality.

The creatures have programmed their social ‘bot’, dubbed as Nadine, with intelligent assistant software similar to Apple’s Siri and Microsoft’s Cortana. One thing that separates Nadine from other assistant software is its way to express moods and emotions. The robot is capable of remembering people she has met before, as per the researchers.

A latest research has come as add on to the proof that ultrasonography can be helpful in diagnosing cancer in women, having dense breasts. Data from 2,809 women from throughout the US, Canada and Argentina were examined.

All the examined women had dense breasts, and also at least one other breast cancer risk factor. According to a report published in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute, each woman went through 3 screenings in the time period of 3 years with mammography and ultrasonography. They found 111 breast cancers overall, and 80% were invasive.

Same number of cancers was identified in both the tests with 129 women requiring an ultrasound or 127 women in need of a mammography for detection of one cancer by doctors.

On Tuesday morning, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Guinea free of Ebola virus transmission, for the first time ever since the detection of the epidemic in March 2014.

The three of the West African countries, including Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, that were hardest hit by the epidemic are now known to have stopped the original chain of infections that as per experts started in December 2013 due to the undiagnosed illness of a young boy named Emile, who belonged to the village of Meliandou located in the forest region of Guinea.

Fode Tass Sylla, a spokesman for the country’s Ebola task force, has called it a big triumph for the nation and the people of Guinea. He was thankful to other countries, private charities and the health organization for their support.

Health officials in Hawaii have confirmed that no new cases of dengue have come up on the island since Christmas. There was a surge in the dengue patients just prior to the festive season. The illness had caught 181 people from early-September to mid-December 2015, according to the figures released until December 28. The Hawaii State Department of Health revealed that currently only two patients are at a stage to be contagious for others.

After increasing incredibly over past few decades, asthma rates in children in the US have been reducing, according to a study of data from 2001 to 2013. The rate of children below the age of 17 years suffering from asthma showed slight increase during the beginning of the study and eventually reduced to 8.3% by the end of the research. The study, which was published in the journal Pediatrics, revealed different rates depending upon age, race and region.