Doctors were just hoping to treat symptoms when they gave people with a deadly blood disorder a drug to reduce the need for transfusions.

In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court said that Michigan and New York had enacted protectionist laws that unconstitutionally discriminated against wineries from other states.

A California company has figured out how to use two simple materials — water and salt — to create a solution that wipes out single-celled organisms, and which appears to speed healing of burns, wounds and diabetic ulcers.

Professor Ross Cheit put it to the students in his Ethics and Public Policy class at Brown University: Are you morally obliged to report cheating if you know about it? The room began to hum, but no one so much as raised a hand.

A battery with a lifespan measured in decades is in development at the University of Rochester, as scientists demonstrate a new fabrication method that in its roughest form is already 10 times more efficient than current nuclear batteries—and has the potential to be nearly 200 times more efficient.

If nanotechnology is, in fact, realized, it might be the human race’s greatest scientific achievement yet, completely changing every aspect of the way we live.

UCLA researchers are developing the technological infrastructure behind RFID-enabled DVD players that would play only tagged DVDs.

Women suffer more brain damage from drinking alcohol than men, scientists have confirmed.

The world’s 1.3 billion smokers could eventually have a powerful new way to kick the habit - a vaccine against nicotine.

The rat’s nest of pipes and columns snaking across the desert harbors a secret process that will use cobalt to turn natural gas into a powerful, clean-burning diesel fuel.

Virtual reality games improved the ability of stroke survivors to walk and also appear to have improved function in the damaged part of the brain, researchers report.

A new study has revealed that maggots can do a better job than surgeons at removing dead tissue from wounds.

Thomas Friedman:
For so many years, America’s economy was so dominant on the world stage, so out front in so many key areas, that we fell into the habit of thinking we were competing largely against ourselves. If we fell behind in one area or another - whether it was math and science skills, […]