CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - Astronauts hitched a giant chest of drawers to the international space station on Monday that contained a brand new freezer, sleeping compartment and treadmill bearing a TV comedian's name. CONTINUED >>>

'We walked out into a wasteland, grey and desolate. The buildings had deteriorated, windows had been smashed. Trees and weeds had grown over everything: it was a ghost town." It reads like a passage from a post-apocalyptic novel, such as Cormac McCarthy'

SAO PAULO (AFP) - It may be one of nature's repulsive little blood-sucking parasites, but the humble tick could yield a future cure for cancers of the skin, liver and pancreas, Brazilian researchers have discovered. They have identified a protein ...

The U.S. Geological Survey's research marks its most comprehensive examination of mercury contamination in stream fish. The study found that 27% of the fish had mercury levels high enough to exceed what the Environmental Protection Agency considers safe.

Coping with three dimensional space is easy enough, and we can even deal with the fourth dimension of time in our every day life, however in mathematics it gets even trickier. Travel down the road of fractals and hyperspace and you may never return!

Solar cells could soon be produced more cheaply using nanoparticle "inks" that allow them to be printed like newspaper or painted onto the sides of buildings or rooftops to absorb electricity-producing sunlight.

Health Canada received a food additive submission seeking the approval of the enzyme asparaginase for use in the manufacture of wheat dough-based products such as bread, crackers and cookies, cut potato products such as French fries, sliced potato product

It could be a big breakthrough in treating aging dogs. Veterinarians are now using stem cell therapy, and the early results are pretty amazing. Watching 9-year-old Lola run might not seem like much to most of us, but for Lola's owner, Wendy Pun, it

Killer seaweed? Yes. It's not like a giant venus flytrap, but it is creating a killer gas that some scientists believe may have wiped out the dinosaurs.

Scientists have identified one of the fundamental chemical buildings blocks of life in a comet for the first time, the US space agency (Nasa) reports. Glycine is an amino acid found in proteins, the sophisticated molecules that organisms use > Cont.