The International Space Station is starting its 11th year of continuous human habitation. Here is a look at designs for orbiting outposts that didn't make it off the drawing board
The devastating brain disease slowly destroys memory and identity. Gain a better understanding through a detailed tour presented by our partners, TheVisualMD
New research reveals that the obesity epidemic in children has more complex causes than just diet and exercise
In a clip from Brian Greene's new NOVA miniseries The Fabric of the Cosmos, physicist Peter Higgs describes the bumpy road that led him to hypothesize his eponymous, elusive particle...
The new discipline of "sensomics" is helping to find ways to make chocolate even tastier
Forecasters expect to see a total of 9.1 billion humans on Earth by 2050
A mere 12 years after surmounting six billion, the world's population will reach seven billion, according to the U.N. But that rate seems to be slowing
The biomedical evidence for alternative or complementary treatments for cancer, beyond acupuncture, remains thin, although it probably didn't harm Jobs
There's no way that anyone could pinpoint which baby became the seven billionth person living on Earth. The uncertainties in measurement are simply too huge
Dutch researcher designs distinct characters into "Dyslexie" to make it more difficult for dyslexics to rotate, swap and mirror letters and numbers
Aurorae were visible Monday across the U.S. Midwest and into the Deep South
Scientists inch closer to a vaccine against the mosquito-borne Plasmodium falciparum, the world's most lethal parasite
The so-called doomsday algorithm uses clever mental arithmetic and mnemonic tricks to enable a quick determination. Trick question: What day did September 6, 1752, fall on?
A growing group of scientists is attempting to save coral reefs by cultivating them
The science behind moving species under threat from climate change
