SCIENCE

Speculation turned into confirmation Wednesday when Aubrey Huff's disappearance from the San Francisco Giant starting lineup was explained. A serious performance anxiety attack has placed the Giants first baseman on the 15-day disabled list

The space shuttle Enterprise will be embarking on its final mission today as it is carried on the back of a specially made aircraft from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. to its new home on the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on the Hudson River. You can watch the space shuttle's arrival in NYC online here.

In new animal studies, scientists have succeeded in transforming scar tissue in the heart into muscle cells without the use of stem cells or surgery, raising hopes for better recovery in heart disease patients.

Aubrey Huff of the San Francisco Giants was placed on the 15-day disabled list due to anxiety.

Blueberries and strawberries may slow memory loss in women, according to a new study. The findings add to the list of potential health effects from these superfoods.

Many Americans misuse or abuse prescription drugs, according to research by Quest Diagnostics.

Speaking on the American Family Association radio show, Governor Bryant implied that Democrats aim to kill children in the womb.

The discovery this week of the fourth U.S. case of mad cow disease was one of two things for food safety experts: a validation of a decade-long focused surveillance regime or a lucky break that highlights the need to revisit previously scrapped efforts for more comprehensive surveillance.

When Odei Antwi-Agyei had the chance of introducing vaccines to prevent Ghana's children dying of diarrhea, or vaccines to stop them dying of pneumonia, he did what no African immunization chief has done before. He said he'd do both at the same time.

British plastic surgeon Neil Bulstrode celebrates successful operation to remove rare skin condition that ruined life of little boy.

The side effects of antidepressants far outweigh their minimal benefits, according to a new study.

Smokey Bear was chosen as mascot for American astronaut Joseph Acaba's mission to space aboard the Russian soyuz spacecraft.

Survival International's Fiona Watson said the Awa people of the Brazilian Amazon are the earth's most threatened tribe, occupying an island in a sea of deforestation.?

Partial paraplegics can control a robot using thought, according to a demonstration at Switzerland's Federal Institute of Technology on Tuesday.

According to the results of a 29-year study, women who go through menopause are almost twice as likely to be diagnosed with symptoms of osteoporosis at some point later in life. Osteoporosis is a disease of the bones that reduces its mineral density. As a result, bone microarchitecture deteriorates and the amount and variety of proteins in the bone is altered.

Doctors administer blood transfusions far too often, causing unnecessary cost and unnecessary risk, according to a new study.

Echoing the anchor babies argument heard here in the United States, Hong Kong's Chief Executive-elect Leung Chun-ying has proposed a zero quota policy that will prevent Chinese women from crossing into Hong Kong to give birth.

On April 24th, the Hubble Space Telescope celebrated its 22nd birthday, marking more than a decade of cosmic discoveries and insights. The iconic telescope launched on April 24th in 1990 on the Space Shuttle ?Discovery,? and was the largest and most sensitive optical-light telescope ever launched into space. Over the course of 22 years, the device has produced some of the most amazing astronomical images the world has seen.

If you don't suffer from arachnophobia, after watching this video you might. Horrifying footage of an extremely large spider in Australia has hit the web, but it's alarming size is not the reason for all the raucous. The spider in the video is eating a 20 inch snake.

Jason Segel, star of the hit series How I Met Your Mother recently revealed that he was forced to lose weight. Segel's new slim figure can be seen in his latest movie, The Five-Year Engagement.

The main ingredient in Botox may be modestly helpful for people with chronic migraines, a new report suggests -- but it doesn't seem to offer much relief for those who have less-frequent headaches.

U.S. authorities reported the country's first case of mad cow disease in six years on Tuesday, swiftly assuring consumers and global importers that there was no danger of meat from the California dairy cow entering the food chain.

A case of Mad Cow disease found in California is the first case since 2006 in the U.S. The dairy cow is the fourth cow ever to be discovered in U.S and was found during a surveillance program by Agriculture Department on Tuesday. It tests about 40000 cows every year for the infection. The recent case of Mad Cow disease or the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was found in the carcass of a cow at a Baker Commodities Inc. rendering facility in Hanford, California, according to Executive Vice ...

Jacqueline Traide, a social sculpture student at Oxford Brookes University, volunteered to be manhandled, smothered, chocked, injected and ill-treated in front of hundreds of onlookers at Regent Street, London, one of the busiest streets of the city.

Planetary Resources, an asteroid mining company backed by filmmaker James Cameron and other well-know investors, was officially announced on Tuesday, with plans to launch exploratory spacecraft over the next two years to hunt for raw materials, ranging from water to precious metals from Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) a few years after that.

Issac Arzate, a 12-year-old boy from Oregon who suffered a heart attack while playing basketball in January, collapsed and died on Friday while playing baseball at his school. Could routine EKG's prevent sudden death in young athletes?

Hand sanitizer is the latest trend in drinking for underage teens, worrying doctors after six young people were hospitalized with alcohol poisoning in California from drinking the antibacterial solution to get drunk. Containing 62 percent ethyl alcohol, teens are using hand sanitizer as a quick way to get drunk, as the gel is the equivalent of a shot and a half of hard liquor. The trend has been evident on YouTube with teens posting video footage of chugging hand sanitizer cocktails.

Many people who experience migraines could benefit from daily preventative medication, according to new guidelines issued by the American Headache Society.

The USDA confirmed the fourth case of BSE in the United States, in a dairy cow in central California.