The course to the moon for several crew members from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Apollo lunar missions went directly through Hawaii.
An effort to cure flocks of dying geese has apparently become a cure for the deadly canine parvovirus, which causes gastrointestinal damage, dehydration and cardiac syndrome in young pups.
Downtown Las Vegas casinos won't be hit by a worker strike after all, as union negotiators reached agreements with several properties hours before workers were set to walk off their jobs.
Virgin Galactic, the privately-funded space transportation outfit led by Sir Richard Branson, and New Mexico's Spaceport America announced a clearer course to eventual trips to space.
Doctors in the future may be able to restore the memories of individuals who have lost them, perhaps the result of a debilitating injury or condition, such as Alzheimer's disease.
Dried fruits have not typically been recommended as a strategy for shedding pounds, but researchers from the University of Liverpool have found eating prunes does indeed improve weight loss.
A research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, has cooked up a new idea for robotic production that makes automatons simply assembled from parts produced by 3-D printers seem so 2013.
New research from the University of Navarra in Spain suggests eating two or more servings of white bread a day increases the risk of obesity 40 percent.
The United States House has passed a bill that offers a modest budget increase for the country's space program, but falls short of funding estimates for a new ride service to the International Space Station.
A team of researchers in Africa has used state-of-the-art tracking technology to discover the continent's longest land mammal journey, the annual migration of Plains -- or Burchell's -- Zebra.
Scientists with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are seeing the moon in a different light, thanks to new images from two of the space agency's latest missions.
A group of researchers from University of Eastern Finland suggest individuals with high levels of cynical distrust may be more likely to develop dementia.
Hours before the company's highly-anticipated unveiling of its 7-passenger Dragon V2 capsule, developed as a potential space taxi for astronauts traveling to and from the International Space Station, the Federal Aviation Administration gave preliminary approval for SpaceX to build a spaceport on an isolated stretch of South Texas coastline.
A group of over 50 leading scientists has told the World Health Organization classifying e-cigarettes as tobacco products could seriously hamper the international campaign against tobacco use.
Florida's ongoing fight against the spiny, invasive lionfish has gone high-tech with a new mobile app. Now, anyone who spots a lionfish and wants to report it simply needs to whip out their mobile device and send the info through the "Report Florida Lionfish" app.
The future of manned space flight, at least according to developers at commercial transport company SpaceX, is scheduled to be revealed tonight and broadcast live over the company's Website.
Scientists with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Saturn-orbiting Cassini mission have found how to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, or, planets in other solar systems, by using Saturn's own moon Titan.
While it's long been understood the abilities of our brains separate human beings from all other life on Earth, a new study suggests human muscles themselves are pretty special as well.
There are few food experiences as beloved by people the world over as bacon frying, with its oh-so-familiar sizzle, its smell wafting up from the pan to fill the room, if not one's entire home.
Researchers from Yale and George Mason universities have explored what "global warming" and "climate change" mean to Americans - and found they are far from synonymous terms.
