They said 77 percent of more than 6,000 men and women washed their hands in public restrooms — a 6 percent decline compared with a similar study in 2005.

Griffin Whitman, a 10-year-old Red Sox fan from Swampscott, was excited to attend his first Yankees vs. Red Sox game Friday night. The young autograph -collector was even more thrilled to score Yankees outfielder Shelley Duncan’s signature before the game. That is, until Griffin read the message from the 27-year-old rookie: “Red Sox suck! Shelley Duncan.”

A COLORADO judge has sentenced people busted for noise pollution to one hour of listening to unpopular or unusual music.

Job hunters perfecting their resumes for that dream job are being urged to also polish their online profile — and clean it up if need be, with a new breed of companies emerging to help mold Internet images.

Here is a photo of the coolest barn you’ll see all day.  (w/pic)

The Northwest Passage, the dreamed-of yet historically impassable maritime shortcut between Europe and Asia, has now fully opened up due to record shrinkage of Arctic sea ice, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Friday.

The hole in the protective ozone layer over the Antarctic is forming again but should remain just below the record size it reached last year, a scientist at the UN’s weather agency said on Wednesday.

Good news for public health: Bioengineering researchers from the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, have developed and patented a nanoparticle that can deliver vaccines more effectively, with fewer side effects, and at a fraction of the cost of current vaccine technologies.

CAMERAS never lie, but now they can catch liars. Japanese scientists have developed a camera that is capable of calculating a person’s real age and whether their smile is genuine.

A report by computer security company Symantec said cyber crime had become increasingly professional and was now a multi-billion dollar industry.

When it comes to a man’s body odor, the fragrance — or stench — is in the nose of the beholder, according to U.S. researchers who suggest a single gene may determine how people perceive body odor.

For her 30th birthday, while she was still pregnant, Lindsay Nie received from Mom an album filled with her baby and childhood photos.  She enjoyed the trip down memory lane — recalling, for instance, the wooden slide she had in her room and the way she used to play on it. But she also noticed [...]

Only 9% of US adults have watched a full-length television program on the Internet, according to an August 2007 Ipsos Insight study conducted with Associated Press and AOL.  But that’s not the full story…

It’s a fashion that started in prison, and now the saggy pants craze has come full circle — low-slung street strutting in some cities may soon mean run-ins with the law, including a stint in jail.