National Medical Research Day, sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges, was held on October 21, 2009. The event celebrated the importance and impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) and biomedical research.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment could be re-started on Saturday morning at the earliest, officials have said. Engineers are preparing to send a beam of sub-atomic particles all the way round the 27km-long circular tunnel which houses the LHC.

A stunning 87 countries around the world are still littered with undetonated landmines, and their impact is devastating. Tens of thousands of people are killed or injured by mines every year, and they pose a grave threat to ecosystems and wildlife.

LOS ANGELES -- It turns out there's lots of water on the moon -- at least near the lunar south pole. The discovery announced Friday comes from an analysis of data

Dr. Brian J. Druker, 54, an oncologist at Oregon Health and Sciences University and a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator, is one of three winners this year of the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

By the time Corey Haas was 7, the retinal disease he was born with had already stolen much of his vision. "He always clung to me or my wife," said Corey's father, Ethan Haas.

spooky-looking fangs that have earned it the name Danionella dracula--and that's more than enough to qualify as a one of the spookiest new species announced in 2009.

Russia should build a new nuclear-powered spaceship for prospective manned missions to Mars and other planets, the nation's space chief said Thursday.

..our children are part of one big experiment to enable the drug companies to line their pockets whilst they sit back and watch what happens to our children. Please share this with as many people as possible...this is sooo wrong and very distrubing

Jack Zimmerman, a Fremont native, flew the first scheduled plane into LaGuardia Airport in New York and logged more than two million flying miles in his career. He died during World War II when his plane, a flying boat of sorts, capsized in rough waters