SCIENCE

Supersizing your soda or any other sugary beverage at some of your favorite places in NYC may be a thing of the past if Mayor Bloomberg's soda ban is approved.

A 24-year-old man has committed suicide after suffering a mental disorder that caused him to obsess and worry about his physical appearance, according to the Daily Mail.

The rise of private space companies and foreign space programs, combined with an interest in lunar mining, is likely to bring the issue of extraterrestrial property rights into focus in the next few decades.

Space Exploration Technologies' Dragon cargo ship started heading back to Earth from International Space Station on Thursday after the first test flight.

Ronald Poppo, the 65-year-old victim of a harrowing cannibal attack in Miami, is at greater threat from infections caused by the bites to his face than the injuries themselves, the Associated Press reported.

A warm winter and a rainy spring equals a lot of mosquitoes in the Big Apple.

Some websites are peddling fake versions of Adderall, a treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder that is currently in short supply in the United States, federal regulators warned.

White-nose syndrome, a disease that has killed millions of hibernating bats in the United States, has been detected for the first time in endangered gray bats in Tennessee, a finding that government scientists on Tuesday described as devastating.

Pacific bluefin tuna carried radioactive isotopes from the site of the Fukushima disaster to the coast of California, but the levels of contamination were well below safety standards in the U.S. and Japan, and well below the levels of other naturally occurring radioactive isotopes in the fish, a new study says.

The most recent earthquake to hit northern Italy occurred on Tuesday, May 29, in the morning. The 5.8 magnitude quake struck the Modena Province, which is about 11 miles away from the epicenter of a previous earthquake that hit just nine days earlier.

In an attempt to add more insight into whether mermaids exist, Animal Planet recently airted its latest documentary special, Mermaids: The Body Found. The network aired the show on Sunday, May 28, as part of its Monster Week series and is strictly a fictional account based on a small number of facts.

An incident in Miami over Memorial Day weekend leaves some wondering whether zombies could in fact be real. A man was shot and killed on May 26th after eating the face of another man while naked.

In a new study from Denmark, people who had taken aspirin, ibuprofen and related painkillers -- especially at high doses and for years at a time -- were less likely to get skin cancer, compared to those who rarely used those medications.

Cannabis capsules failed to slow the progression of multiple sclerosis in a large British study, dealing a blow to hopes that the drug could provide long-term benefits for patients with the debilitating nerve disease.

Occupational therapy for kids who are over- or under-sensitive to sound, touch or other senses could help improve their symptoms -- but parents and doctors should be careful not to miss an underlying disorder in those children, pediatricians said today.

Health-conscious Californians may mostly oppose smoking for its costs to public health and the economy but an aggressive tobacco industry campaign and general anti-tax sentiment may block a measure to raise taxes on smokers.

Subtropical Storm Beryl brought coastal winds and looming showers Sunday morning to the Atlantic coast between Florida and South Carolina, as the storm promises to bring heavy rains and dangerous surf by Memorial Day.

The crew members aboard the International Space Station opened the hatch and floated inside the Space Exploration Technologies' Dragon capsule, the first privately owned spaceship to reach the orbital outpost, according to Nasa

Sleep apnea is already linked to a host of health problems, but according to new research, it can also raise your risk of dying from cancer. Cancer patients with sleep apnea have a higher risk of dying from their cancer than those without sleep apnea, researchers said.

A tropical storm warning has been issued for the Southeast coast from north Florida to South Carolina. The cluster of thunderstorms dubbed Tropical Storm Beryl started to gather strength on Saturday, May 26, and is expected to peak during the Memorial Day Weekend.

Birds belonging to the Corvidae family -- a group that includes crows, ravens, rooks, and, yes, even John James Audubon's hated blue jays -- have an uncanny ability to learn, play, and use tools unmatched by any other feathered relative.

The U.S. Senate on Thursday showed near-unanimous support for a bill that helps fund the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a regulatory powerhouse with sweeping influence over the foods Americans eat and the medicines they take. The bill, which passed by a vote of 96 to 1, aims to speed approval of new drugs and devices and ensure food safety.

A U.S. health advisory panel on Thursday issued a split vote on data for Pfizer Inc's drug to treat a rare neurodegenerative disease. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel voted 13 to 4 that the drug did not show that it met the main goal in a study in treating the fatal condition.

The gag rule, which bans funding for non-profits that provide information about abortion services, has had a shaky history since it was enacted by the Reagan administration in 1984.

The mother of a toddler who was videotaped being put inside a washing machine, has spoken out against her baby sitter, saying she should be punished and put in jail

Scientists reported Wednesday that they'd found a new sensory organ in the jaw of a fin whale, which they think may help the animals coordinate jaw movements as they lunge toward a meal.

It turns out that men aren?t looking for beauty with brains when it comes to finding a woman. A new study says that traits such as stupidity, drunkenness, and sleepiness have been rated as attractive.

A request for big foot hair samples doesn't come along too often, at least not from the hallowed halls of an institution like Oxford University. Yeti hunting? Not exactly an esteemed British university's forte.

The meteoric rise of a natural, healthy alternative to sugar - a holy grail for the food industry - might just be a little too good to be true. In two years stevia, a plant used for centuries by Paraguay's Guarani Indians, has shot to prominence in products by Coca-Cola, Danone and Merisant.