SCIENCE

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have recommended that people get a flu shot. However, vaccine producers are saying that the ones who already got the shot may not need to get it again.

According to a new study the increase in desk jobs for the last 50 years may be the major cause for the risen obesity rate in United States.

Medical supplies maker Boston Scientific issued a major recall after complaints that some units of its iCross Coronary Imaging Catheters dethatched inside of patients.

The US federal government will stop using the food pyramid it first introduced in 1992. The 20 year old food pyramid was a basis for nutritional guideline throughout the United States.

Researchers at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institue (NHLBI) say increasing the dose of niacin to patients with heart disease who are already taking a cholesterol-lowering statin does nothing more to prevent heart attacks and strokes.

Mark Zuckerberg - when he's not building Facebook - likes to give himself personal challenges to learn something about the world, expand my interests and teach myself greater discipline, he recently told a magazine.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have recommended that people get a flu shot. However, vaccine producers are saying that the ones who already got the shot may not need to get it again.

The Endeavour crew completes the final spacewalk on the space shuttle's final mission into space, NASA reports.

The mission is complete. Astronauts on the Endeavour space shuttle has placed the final part of a robotic arm onto the International Space Station. The task was completed after logging in over 1,000 assembly hours. The final completion was 12 years in the making since the project started in December 1998. This marks the last spacewalk and flight for the Endeavour.

In December, NASA held a press conference to announce that a bacteria discovered in a salty California lake appeared to use arsenic in its DNA. But the findings ran into criticism right from the start, and now the journal Science has published the critiques of the work, as well as a response from the team that did the original work.

Images from the Endeavour space shuttle mission.

According to a new study funded by U.S National Institutes of Health (NIH), around 20 per cent of U.S young adults are suffering from high blood pressure.

An orbiting NASA observatory has picked up signs that several stars exploded as supernovas in the last few million years, and more are coming.

Researchers create the most comprehensive map of the universe ever created.

Electrons are almost perfect spheres, and the fact that they are could help answer questions such as why antimatter is rare.

Electrons are almost perfect spheres, and the fact that they are could help answer questions such as why antimatter is rare.

A lobster-like animal that was the biggest predator of its kind survived much longer and gota lot bigger than anyone thought.

A cosmic explosion caused by the death of a giant star, referred to by astronomers as GRB 090429B, has helped astronomers catch a glimpse of what possibly could be the edge of the observable Universe.

NASA has said it Hubble Space Telescope has found rare, age-defying stars, the 'blue stragglers', in our galaxy.

NASA is planning a mission to collect a piece of an asteroid and return it to Earth in order to discover clues to the formation of the solar system and possibly, the origins of life.

NASA announced plans launch a robot that will gather samples from distant asteroids.

Fifty years later, JFK's moon speech still holds up.

NASA has decided to cease communications with the rover Spirit today, ending a seven-year mission that was supposed to last 90 days.

Two Endeavour astronauts have completed the mission's third spacewalk.

NASA has said it is ending its attempts to regain contact with the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. A transmission that will end on Wednesday, May 25, will be the last in a series of attempt, NASA said in a statement on Tuesday.

NASA's sky cameras recently caught a massive meteor soaring over Georgia. Take a look of a few videos of the meteor.

NASA's satellites are at work again, getting images of the Grímsvötn volcano in Iceland from space.

After a five-month stay aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 27 commander Dmitry Kondratyev and flight engineers Cady Coleman and Paolo Nespoli safely landed their Soyuz spacecraft on the Kazakhstan steppe Monday.

Endeavour's heat shield is damaged but the space agency has cleared it for re-entry as it doesn't pose a major safety problem.