Laboratory animal testing is cruel and inhumane thus should be a punishable felony crime like other animal cruelty. With the technological advances in science today, it is becoming harder and harder to justify such a primitive and barbaric tradition.

Freedom has always been part of the American mythology. The Constitution's Bill of Rights bristles with freedoms. "Freedom of the Seas" was one of

A rarely-seen collection of crabs from Charles Darwin's voyage aboard HMS Beagle has been given a new lease of life on the web.The University of Oxford has released images of specimens held in its museum collections that have been digitised online for Dar

Feb. 4 has been declared 'Across The Universe Day' !Transmission over NASA's Deep Space Network will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the day The Beatles recorded the song,as well as the 50th anniversary of NASA's founding & the group's beginnings.

Security experts are warning about a stealthy Windows virus that steals login details for online bank accounts.In the last month,the malicious program has racked up about 5,000victims mostly in Europe.Experts say the virus is dangerous buries itself deep

Elephants really do have good memories - at least when it comes to keeping tabs on where their own relatives are. They are able to recognize up to 17 female family members based on cues they pick up from sniffing their urine.

Interesting article on dreams and nightmares - why we dream, how often we have dreams and nightmares and how they can affect our waking lives.

When zoonotic diseases pass from animals to humans, pandemics can result. Scientists are tracking lethal new viruses. In September 1994, a violent disease erupted among racehorses in a suburb of Brisbane, Australia. The place, called Hendra, was a quiet o

Three teams in Scotland have managed to derive and grow stem cells without using any animal cells that might contaminate them, overcoming one of the obstacles of using human embryonic stem cells to treat diseases

Petko Petkov of "ethical hacking" group GNUCitizen has developed a proof-of-concept program to steal contacts and incoming e-mails from Google Gmail users.