The living arrangements of parents at the time a baby is conceived may play a role in determining its sex, research suggests.

Swiss medical researchers say they have achieved encouraging results with a pioneering synthetic material that could replace missing or damaged bones and allow the original bone tissue to grow back in its place.

In a lab in Indianapolis, a student takes a tablet of a common antihistamine. About 40 minutes later, researchers detect the drug in his system simply by directing a spray of alcohol and water onto his finger and instantly analyzing the mixture with a common lab instrument. This is not a scene from CSI or […]

Kathleen Logue volunteered for an experiment designed to test whether taking a pill immediately after a terrorizing experience might reduce the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The study is part of a promising but controversial field of research seeking to alter, or possibly erase, the impact of painful memories — a concept dubbed “therapeutic […]

A German man who earlier this year tried to have Santa Claus banned, says he has a device that can straighten bananas.

Thomas Sowell: At long last there is some reconsideration of the child molestation hysteria that has sent innocent people to jail for long terms behind bars, often with zero evidence and with testimony from children who have been heavily pressured or manipulated by “experts.”

Imagine spaceships being catapulted and caught in space using “gloves” of high-energy plasma beams.

That’s the vision of Robert Winglee, a professor at the University of Washington who is leading the team that’s pioneering the concept of the Mag-beam, or magnetized-beam plasma propulsion.

Lightning is nature’s own genetic engineer. By opening up pores in soil bacteria it allows them to pick up any stray DNA present, report Timothy Vogel, Pascal Simonet and their colleagues at the University of Lyon in France.

The TV-B-Gone is all about freeing people from the attention-sapping hold of omnipresent television programming.