if we spent our entire day dwelling on all the cruelty and injustice in the world, most of us would wind up in the fetal position under the covers and not get anything done. There are those that take it to extremes, and never watch the news for this very

Scientists have found out a new blood type. At first the father and his boy thought to have a type of disease called cardiac defect, or another type of disease called Sleep Apnoea Syndrome due to the blood in their bodies lacks oxygen. After major healt

Plans are being made for the first experiments to pave the way for a "doomsday ark" on the moon.

So you've lived here all your life -- in fact, everyone has -- but what do you really know about the Milky Way galaxy? Sure, you know it's a spiral, and it's 100,000 light years across

Curing a disease by causing another one seems counter-intuitive, but that's just what scientists at Yale University have done.

Nearly 80 years ago, scientist Otto Warburg observed that cancer cells perform energy metabolism in a way that is different from normal adult cells.

Researchers at the University of Michigan Health System have found a key linkage between pain and a specific brain molecule, a discovery that lends new insight into fibromyalgia, an often-baffling chronic pain condition.

A new study shows that exposure to a chemical called diacetyl, a component of artificial butter flavoring, can be harmful to the nose and airways of mice...

Rare pygmy hippos are surviving hidden in Liberia's forests against all the odds, despite two civil wars that have ravaged their habitat, British scientists said on Monday.

Sometimes one random thought leads to another - or triggers a whole chain of potential actions. Take ID theft, for instance.