Space shuttle Enterprise took its final journey Wednesday to its retirement home on a floating museum off the western edge of New York City and you can check it out in person in just over a month's time.
Regulators are cracking down on functional food health claims, which can be a powerful marketing tool and allow firms to charge more for products with apparent nutritional enhancements.
Italian researchers say that airplane headache should be considered a new subtype of headache and suggest a list of criteria doctors can use to diagnose it.
In his opinion, a federal judge wrote the FDA's reasons for denying two citizens petitions on the issue were arbitrary and capricious.
Researchers have found that a particular kind of belly fat is involved in regulating the immune system, opening the door for new kinds of drugs for auto-immune diseases like Crohn's disease and lupus.
Thanks to their small size and strong exoskeleton, mosquitoes are able to shake off impacts from raindrops that would obliterate a human if they were struck by a similarly sized force.
Using a new method of calculating body weight using a laser scanner, researchers say that the sauropod that left behind a 41-foot-tall skeleton now displayed in Berlin's natural history museum weighed around 23,000 kg (25 tons) in life instead of 50 to 80 tons as previously estimated.
Legionnaires' disease has broken out in Scotland, causing one death and leaving at least 40 other people critically ill. Authorities are searching for the source of the disease, as the number of infected citizens in and around Edinburgh continues to rise since the first case was reported Thursday.
Sheryl Crow fans and brain tumor survivors are tearing into the Grammy-winning singer over her cheery announcement that she was recently diagnosed with a non-cancerous growth and her Pollyanna outlook on the diagnosis.
The emergence of drug-resistant or superbug strains of gonorrhoea is caused by unregulated access to and overuse of antibiotics, which helps fuel natural genetic mutations within the bacteria.
More people dropped out of face-to-face talk therapy than telephone-based therapy in a new study.
For the very last time this century, skywatchers and astronomers around the world got the opportunity to witness the rare astronomical reunion of the Sun, Venus and Earth Tuesday. Venus, the second brightest natural object in the night sky after the Moon, made a rare pass in front of the Sun, making its presence in the solar system visible from Earth's day side.
It will be your last change to catch a glimpse of one of the rarest cosmic spectacles -- the slow movement of the planet Venus across the face of the sun.
The transit of Venus, which occurs when the planet's orbit brings it between Earth and the sun, takes place roughly twice a century.
Dutch company Mars One has been making the rounds with its dreams of putting on a reality TV show to select astronauts for a one-way journey to the Red Planet. But the company is vague on how people will be transported to and live on Mars.
Drew Manning made himself obese to prove a point, and teach himself a lesson. The personal trainer gained over 70 pounds in six months as an experiment, to see what it takes to lose that sort of weight, while also putting himself in his clients' shoes.
Bath Salts, the street drug thought to be behind the harrowing cannibal attack in Miami last week, could be made illegal in Canada, CBC reported.
Sunscreen is intended to prevent burns, but that's exactly the opposite of what happened to Brett Sigworth of Massachusetts when he suffered second-degree burns after using aerosol sunscreen spray. Sigworth told CBS News that he used Banana Boat Sport Performance sunscreen from an aerosol can before walking over to his backyard grill. Little did Sigworth know that the sunscreen would still be flammable after being applied to his body, prompting an investigation by the company.
Since Venus will only be covering up between 2 percent and 3 percent of the solar disc, watching the event with your naked eye will basically be like staring directly into the sun.
By aiming their instruments at the transit of Venus, astronomers can see if they are able to detect clues about Venus' atmosphere using methods that could be applied to observations of far-flung worlds.
Groups concerned that overuse of antibiotics in animal feed is endangering human health by creating antibiotic-resistant superbugs scored a small legal victory Monday when a federal judge told the FDA to take a second look at its decision to reject citizen petitions on the issue.
A new study found that the FDA failed to send notifications for one in five of the most serious recalls through its two electronic systems used to alert doctors and the public.
The rare Transit of Venus will come to the United States Tuesday, as the second planet in the solar system will pass in front of the sun as it sets. The event occurs only once every century, so it's best to prepare ahead of time. Here's how.
Scientists think they've found evidence of a primate ancestor's mighty migration from Asia to Africa in 14 fossilized teeth uncovered in Myanmar.
Obesity is a national epidemic. ABC's Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition aims to help people combat obesity by directly helping those who are fighting the uphill battle. Trainer and transformation specialist Chris Powell offers his weight loss tips for a healthier, happier life.
Physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider explain just how bad of an idea it is to stick your hand in a particle accelerator.
Carbonated and cola drinks were most strongly linked to a risk for hypertension, but fruit sugar, or fructose, in drinks did not stand out as a driving factor, according to a new study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Mexico's Ministry of Health has issued a warning on Reumofan Plus -- marketed as a so-called natural dietary supplement for pain relief and other serious conditions -- and ordered manufacturer Riger Naturals to recall it.
Catalina Clouser, a 19-year-old marijuana -smoking mother, made headlines on Saturday after driving off with her five-month old son on the roof of her car.
Researchers think that using the anti-psychotic medication trifluoperazine in combination with the lung cancer drug erlotinib could be a potent combination to fight advanced lung cancer.
