Randy Schekman, James Rothman and Thomas Sudhof shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Medicine, announced Monday.
Scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon, South Korea, have developed a “jellyfish terminator” robot set out to detect the marine coelenterate and kill it.
A new report that ranks countries on how good life is for the elderly population shows Honduras and Paraguay among the lowest in the western hemisphere.
Opponents of the Senate’s very existence point to the fact that its members are not directly elected by the public.
It sounds like something that should not occur in the postmodern age: How can jellyfish shut down a nuclear reactor?
All who participated in the study were born in either 1914, 1918, 1922 or 1930, and agreed to undergo neuropsychiatric tests at scheduled intervals.
While many might think America has the most powerful banks in the world, they are not very strong. Here's the world's 20 strongest.
A Ukrainian woman was killed and her boyfriend's legs were severed when they were run over by a train.
Gay rights activists have started a #BoycottBarilla petition after Barilla pasta CEO Guido Barilla went on a homophobic rant.
A new report from the IMF outlines the untapped potential of a worldwide female labor force that still isn't going to work.
Norway’s generous electric car incentives have helped the country become the EV center of Europe.
Zach Johnson's bogey-free 65 in the final round helped earn him the title at Conway Farms
It might come as a surprise, but European economies leave the United States trailing in their wake, new figures reveal.
The U.N. has overwhelming evidence that chemical weapons were used in Aug. 21 attack in Damascus, Syria.
Second-quarter employment data showed that job cuts are slowing, but an upturn in the labor market is still distant.
Boeing was all set to sell Brazil its F-18 Super Hornet for $4B. Then the NSA's spying on the president made things hairy for the U.S. company.
Put it in the category of a disappointment: industrial production in the euro zone fell in July, after analysts had predicted no change.
Don’t try to go drink for drink with a tree shrew, and watch out for gangs of fermented apple-addled moose.
Nowhere on planet earth are people happier, a new U.N. report claims, than in one of its coldest corners: Scandinavia.
The Van Gogh Museum identified a 125-year-old painting stored in a collector's attic as an authentic Van Gogh.
Germany host neighbors Austria in Friday’s World Cup qualifier.
Thousands of banks have failed globally since 2000, but there also are hundreds that have survived. Here are the 10 oldest.