A new study of violent Jovian storms suggests that Jupiter's jets are driven by internal heat and wind and not solar radiation....

Large predators raised in captivity and reintroduced into their natural habitat have only a one-in-three chance of surviving, according to a new study....

A 2,500-year-old vase featuring scenes from a Homer poem is among several antiquities returned to Italy after lengthy negotiations with the Metropolitan Museum of Art....

A German-born Jew has filed suit against a Madrid museum over ownership of a $20 million (U.S.) painting seized by Nazis. Part Two of Nine....

Warmer oceans might increase a phenomenon called vertical wind shear that makes it hard for hurricanes to form, strengthen, and stay active, new research says....

The cholesterol drug Vytorin is now getting attention that is anything but funny.

An ambitious project to create the most detailed picture of human genetic variation yet has been launched by British and American scientists

British scientists have been given the go-ahead to begin potentially ground-breaking experiments using injections of stem cells to repair patients' damaged hearts

AP - Global warming could reduce how many hurricanes hit the United States, according to a new federal study that clashes with other research. The new study is the latest in a contentious scientific debate over how man-made global warming may affect the intensity and number of...

Single-stranded DNA can be used to identify explosives and other airborne compounds.

Astronomers have predicted the existence of a planet, the first one in over 150 years.

A small population of dwarves in rural Ecuador could hold the answer.

A new product lets workers combine simple bits of software to create business tools.

Arecibo Observatory finds that neutron stars can be more massive, while black holes are more rare.

An active volcano could be warming the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

Data should provide clues to disease and human diversity

Poor countries incur trillions more in "ecological debt" than they cause

Otherwise-healthy adults who eat two or more servings of meat a day — the equivalent of two burger patties — increase their risk of developing metabolic syndrome by 25 percent compared with those who eat meat twice a week, according to research published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Increased exercise capacity reduces the risk of death in African-American and Caucasian men, researchers reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Patients with hypertension and certain gene variations experienced varying results with some blood pressure medications, suggesting matching a patient`s genotype with certain hypertension medications could result in more favorable outcomes, according to a study in the January 23 issue of JAMA.

Researchers on three continents will join together to catalog the genomes of 1,000 people in an ambitious project that they hope will help determine genetic roots and factors for human disease, the group announced Tuesday.

Second Life on Tuesday began cracking down on banking in the popular online virtual world to protect residents from unstable financial institutions and outright scams.

(AP) -- A new study gives the strongest evidence yet that obesity surgery can cure diabetes. Patients who had surgery to reduce the size of their stomachs were five times more likely to see their diabetes disappear over the next two years than were patients who had standard diabetes care, according to Australian researchers.

The federal government will be closing the Office of the National Science Advisor, less than four years after the position was created.