The FBI is expected to announce this week the awarding of a $1 billion, 10-year contract to develop the largest and most comprehensive government biometrics database in history — with information on the palm prints, eye scans, tattoos, and other identifying physical data of citizens and those who pass through.

When it comes to sunscreen, it seems that it’s your health or the coral reefs’. A new study finds that sunscreen ingredients are killing coral reefs.

Conventional wisdom says that communities will save on health care by getting people to lose weight and quit smoking. But a recent Dutch study finds that, compared to obese people and smokers, healthy people place a greater burden on health care systems! The reason: it costs more to care for people who live longer.

Korean fast food chain BBQ Chicken has introduced the Col-Pop, a cup that holds both food and drink.

Incredible image of Venus and Jupiter on earth’s horizon. Photo compliments of NASA.

On September 11 1958 the Halliard 1 nuclear bomb test took place on Christmas Island in the Pacific. This is the amazing photo that captured the event.

Looking for an unusual gift or that perfect ornament for your living room? How about a cross-section of a preserved corpse, courtesy of "Body Worlds" entrepreneur Gunther von Hagens — a snip at €12,000.

Indiana University researchers are studying a ground-breaking theory
that young children are able to learn large groups of words rapidly by
data-mining.

Teen moviegoers consume twice as much television and radio as non-moviegoing teens, according to a January report by Integrated Media Measurement.

Scientists at the Imperial
College London’s Department of Life Sciences and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,
in collaboration with researchers in Costa Rica and South Africa, have
identified a ‘barcode’ gene that can be used to distinguish between the majority
of plant species on Earth.

For procreation, it has always taken two to tango. But scientists from
the UK’s Newcastle University have taken reproductive biology where it has never
gone before - creating a human embryo from three parents, two women and a
man.

As people spend more time communing with their televisions and
computers, the impact is not just on their health, researchers say.
Less time spent outdoors means less contact with nature and,
eventually, less interest in conservation and parks.