SCIENCE

The FDA announced that the drug Avastin may impair fertility in some women. The drug's manufacturer has been battling the FDA for months to keep the agency from revoking its approval of Avastin's ability to treat breast cancer.

An Israeli scientist won the 2011 Nobel Prize for chemistry Wednesday for his discovery of crystals that packed in a pattern that never was repeated, research that colleagues ridiculed for years.

Mathematical model shows impact of smoking on the world.

Smoking could be responsible for 40 million excess deaths from tuberculosis between 2010 and 2050, says a new study.

The death toll in the U.S. from a Listeria outbreak traced to cantaloupes has risen to 18, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday.

Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work in the discovery of quasicrystals.

NASA has made the announcement that it will start accepting applications for its next class of astronaut candidates in November.

Researchers at the University of Dallas have created a device which can make itself disappear by creating its own mirage.

Women who use contraception injections double their likelihood that they will contract an HIV infection or transmit it to their male partners according to a new research.

Even in relatively modern societies, humans are still changing and evolving in response to their environment, new research indicates.

Study suggests that lighter-skinned people take vitamin D supplements.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported a dramatic decline in drunk driving incidents, the lowest in two decades, most likely caused by the current state of the U.S. economy.

As if the news about the Arctic's ozone hole outsizing the hole in Antarctica in early 2011 wasn't bad enough, Tuesday, NASA officials released more bad news: sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean reached its second lowest level in recorded history in September.

Study suggests that doctors check with mild stroke patients about depression and other effects.

Three American physicists walked away with the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for discovering that our universe's expansion is accelerating.

In a feat of engineering magic, researchers at the University of Dallas in Texas made an invisibility cloak that is based on the mirage effect, an optical illusion similar to the waves formed over hot pavement or mirages found in the desert.

A large ozone hole over the Arctic may have likely exposed people living in Russia, parts of Greenland and Norway to high ultraviolet (UV) radiation.

A breast cancer survivor said she was subjected to a humiliating public pat down at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport even though she offered to produce documentation on her medical implants.

Wanna become an astronaut? Now's your chance. NASA will begin in November accepting applications for astronauts from the general public for the first time.

Men who have extramarital affairs are increasing their risk of penile fracture, a new study found. According to the new report from a University of Maryland researcher, there is a link between patients suffering from penile fracture and extramarital affairs.

A Russian conference is setting out to do what no man has done before: Find Yeti. Yeti, otherwise known as Bigfoot, the Abominable Snowman or Sasquatch, has titillated explorers for over a century, with sightings of large footprints in mud or snow.

The U.S. Supreme Court opened its new term on Monday, first considering whether Medicaid recipients and health care providers may sue California for cutting reimbursement rates.

The 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics will be shared by three scientists, for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of exploding stars, according to the Nobel Prize Committee.

There are unprecedented levels of depletion of the ozone layer, above the Arctic Circle, this spring, according to a NASA-led study. The research was conducted by a team of scientists from 19 institutions across nine countries, including Canada and the United States.

Celebrating the start of ALMA's Early Science observations, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) has released an image of a merging pair of galaxies as seen by the radio telescope.

Canada-born Ralph M. Steinman, 68, who was awarded with the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his groundbreaking work on the immune system, died of pancreatic cancer just days before he would have found out that he had been awarded the prize.

The Facebook pages of college students could, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, indicate which of them display symptoms of alcohol dependence and abuse.

Canada-born Ralph M. Steinman, of New York's Rockefeller University, who was honored with the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his groundbreaking work on the immune system, died of cancer just days before he could be told of the award.

The Arctic saw massive ozone losses in 2011 due to a prolonged period of extremely low temperatures in the stratosphere, according to a NASA-led study.