Even 'Anonymized' User Data Can Sometimes Disclose Person's Identity

The president’s proposed spending plan would increase money for the Health and Human Services Department and the National Institutes of Health.

New genetic test helps predict how race horses will perform

Researchers using a diamond paste to polish a slice of meteorite stumbled onto something remarkable: crystals in the rock that are harder than diamonds.

Andrew Wakefield, the doctor whose research sparked international concern over whether or not childhood vaccines cause autism, was found guilty by a British panel of acting unethically in his research on autism.

Scientists begin early assessments of the damage on marine life, but initial reports are bleak.

Under Obama's budget proposal, the agency would cancel plans to return to the moon, and instead focus on building rockets that could someday go farther.

Fishermen Descend on Southern Calif. for Chance to Catch Sea Creatures that Weigh up to 60 Pounds

Researchers say adoptions in wild show evidence of altruism

For aerialists with the United States Freestyle Ski Team, their high-flying feats are a matter of physics, and plenty of preparation.

Conventional hearing aids use air conduction to turn up the volume on the sound traveling to the ear. But a new device from Sonitus Medical, turns up the volume using bone conduction

Rapid diversification of flower suggests continent may have been an evolutionary hot spot

The space agency will end for now its effort to free Spirit from the sand trap where it has been stuck since April 2009. Instead, the focus will turn to preparing it to survive the upcoming Martian winter.

As China and the United States promise emissions cuts, coal consumption takes center stage. By Monday, as many as two dozen countries will have listed their emissions targets. Experts say countries need to weigh the costs and benefits of continuing to use a technology that produces the largest amount of greenhouse gases.

cosmos at the Physics of the Universe Summit in Los Angeles, but they didn’t necessarily agree.