The leader of the team that created Dolly the sheep defended human cloning research on Wednesday because of its huge medical potential and said cloning babies could be justified in preventing genetic disease.

Many patients in intensive care units are being wrongly diagnosed, according to a study in a UK hospital. Some are dying because doctors fail to spot major conditions such as heart attacks, cancer and pulmonary embolism. The reason, experts say, is not incompetence but that so few post-mortems are now performed that doctors cannot learn […]

There are instances when you wish your car could take care of itself–like when it’s 10 degrees and you’re trying to fill your gas tank.
A concept car by Volvo travels in that direction. The Swedish carmaker owned by Ford spent $3.3 million and conducted focus groups with female car buyers worldwide.

A prisoner taken off death row after a judge ruled prosecutors withheld key evidence in his murder trial was found not guilty Wednesday in a second trial.

Moscow Zoo keepers are to fit televisions in the cages of their gorillas in a bid to make them “think more”.