Scientists have confirmed that the first genetically altered humans have been born and are healthy. Up to 30 such children have been born - 15 of them as a result of one experimental programme at a US laboratory.

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.

AP probe found traces of meds in water supplies of 41 million Americans.

A bird not seen for almost 80 years has been rediscovered in the Pacific to the delight of conservationists.

THE remains of an ancient Roman shopping parade, hidden for centuries under the floorboards of Cirencester's historic Corn Hall have been unearthed this week.

X-rated Web site operator Cyberheat today felt the slap of the FTC and the Department of Justice by agreeing to pay a $413,000 civil penalty for paying partners who used illegal e-mail to drive customers to its Web sites.

One of the best tools astronomers have to glimpse the distant universe is a technology that nature invented. Cosmic magnifying glasses called gravitational lenses help scientists zoom in on far-away scenes they could never spot otherwise.

Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have developed a technique to peer through high-speed dense liquids using high-energy X-rays from Argonne's Advanced Photon Source (APS).

An Encyclopaedia of Life, cataloguing all 1.8 million plants and animals on Earth, is to be unveiled by scientists. The project's first 30,000-page draft - covering large numbers of fish, amphibia, mammals and birds - will be released on Wednesday.