SCIENCE

NASA astronaut Frank Culbertson was relaxing on the International Space Station, reading a Tom Clancy novel when he heard reports of the 9/11 attacks on New York City.

SpongeBob SquarePants, a popular children's cartoon, can be hazardous to children's health.

After its first failed attempt on Thursday, NASA’s twin satellites were finally launched on Saturday morning, said the agency.

The paleoanthropologist greets the recent discovery of a two-million-year-old fossil with the possibility that it might explicate the understanding of human evolution.

According to a recent study published in the journal Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, women on birth control pills retain only gist of events than other women who do not take contraceptive pills.

WellPoint Inc, the U.S. health insurer, and IBM have agreed to commercially use IBM's Watson technology which will help physicians identify best treatment options.

An out-of-use NASA science satellite will plunge back to Earth soon, sparking concerns that some debris might shower down on populated areas.

The investigation into a listeria outbreak has been expanded to include three states where contaminated cantaloupe was consumed, Colorado health officials say.

A study by researchers at Emory University in Atlanta predicts that enrolling 70 percent of older adults who are at risk for diabetes or cardiovascular disease in community-based intervention programs would reduce Medicare expenditures by up to $15 billion.

A new U.S. study says women with hereditary cancers are developing them almost eight years earlier than their mothers and grandmothers.

New movies created from years of still images collected by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope provide exciting details about the birth of stars, showing energetic jets of glowing gas ejected from young stars in unprecedented detail.

Scientists have developed genetically modified cats that emit a green glow and have cells that fight the virus which causes feline AIDS.

An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants time limits on the use of osteoporosis drugs, but could not agree on a figure.

A defunct NASA satellite is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere by early October, sparking concerns that some debris might shower down on populated areas.

Reports about an Arctic summertime sans ice due to global warming and natural swings in regional wind patterns are quite alarming. The extent of summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean reached a record low this week since satellite observations began in 1972, according to the University of Bremen's Institute of Environmental Physics.

A new study has made a surprising finding that a serendipitous crash of a mammoth meteorite onto ancient Earth brought gold and other complex and heavy elements from outer space. The study also shows that -- hold your breath -- precious metals are super-abundant in the crust of our planet.

NASA finally launched its GRAIL mission, Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Saturday, its first mission to map the Moon's inner core.

Long-term exposure to a class of osteoporosis drugs called bisphosphonates is associated with serious side effects, concluded panels to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Biphosphonates, drugs introduced to the market 16 years ago that treats osteoporosis, need labeling to clarify how long patients should take them as data suggests that efficacy decreases while risk increases after some period, panels to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) voted on Friday.

The North Pole's ice skull cap shrank to an historic low this week. Shrinking to its lowest point since satellite observations began in 1972, the area covered by the Arctic sea ice shrank to 4.24 million square kilometers (1.637 square miles) on Sept. 8, according to the University of Bremen's Institute of Environmental Physics.

Jennifer Hudson isn't the only one shedding pounds through Weight Watchers. A scientific study finds that Weight Watchers is a more effective way to lose weight rather than visiting the doctor for a standard weight-loss plan.

NASA is on its way back to the moon, embarking upon a new study that could help launch future manned missions one day.NASA's Grail mission launched this morning, as the Delta II rocket carrying the Gravity and Recovery and Interior Laboratory lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla. Saturday at 6:08 a.m. EDT amid clear skies. It is the 110th mission to the moon in history, with previous missions launched by the United States, Soviet Union, Japan, China and India.

Spectators at the Cocoa Beach became witness to the third attempt by NASA to launch the dual-spacecraft mission finally as it lifted off from Cape Canaveral.

NASA astronaut Frank Culbertson was the only American not on Earth when the 9/11 terrorist attacks happened 10 years ago, He was on board the International Space Station and filmed the shocking incident.

NASA had scratched the planned launches on Thursday and Friday, initially because of foul weather and then because of a data glitch.

Warner Chilcott Plc (WCRX), Roche Holding AG (ROG), Merck **9** Co. and Novartis AG (NOVN) need to change the labeling of Bisphosphonates, a medicine taken by patients to prevent and cure osteoporosis, the FDA said.

The discovery of a set of 2-million-year-old fossils could be a gamechanger in understanding human evolution, providing a key link in the process that led to modern human beings, scientists say.

Johnson & Johnson and C.R. Bard Inc. have to carry more clinical studies and present more safety data on the transvaginal mesh used to treat prolapsed pelvic organ, FDA said on Friday.

A gene responsible for regulating chronic pain have been identified which as per the scientists could help in developing more effective painkillers.