The record price paid last week for a joystick control unit used during the Apollo 15 lunar mission in 1971 suggests the public still has a love affair with America's space program.
Battle lines are being drawn along the Jersey Shore, where scientists from Rutgers University hoping to launch a month-long mapping study are being opposed by environmental and business interests alike.
Drinkable sunscreen by Osmosis Skincare has been on the market for a couple years already, but a new round of media attention is shedding new light on the controversial product.
Approximately 36.1 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home during this Memorial Day holiday weekend, according to AAA Travel, a 1.5 percent increase from the 35.5 million people who journeyed in 2013.
When sunscreen is on your shopping list, what do you look for? If the lotion's SPF, or sun protection factor, leads your purchasing decision, you're like half of the 1,000 adult sunscreen wearers in the United States recently surveyed by the Consumer Reports National Research Center.
Chaparros Mexican Foods Inc., based in Vista, California, is recalling approximately 568,503 pounds of beef products due to misbranding and an undeclared allergen, according to a release from the United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service.
Exotic dragons from Asia have landed in New York City - and it doesn't have anything to do with the Godzilla movie currently stomping through theaters everywhere.
An estimated 14,860 pounds of hummus and other dip products have been voluntarily recalled by prepared foods manufacturer Lansal, Inc., which does business under the name Hot Mama's Foods and distributes mainly to sellers in the Midwest and West that include Target and Trader Joe's chain stores.
California lawmakers are a step closer to slapping warning labels on soft drinks. California lawmakers are a step closer to slapping warning labels on soft drinks.
After successfully completing a critical design review of its new Mars lander, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration can start the process of digging into Mars' past, literally.
Researchers at Oxford University are calling on governments and health and social service programs to put much greater emphasis on treating mental illnesses - found to more deadly than smoking.
Ground beef recalled by a Detroit business may have been sent to locations in 10 states, according to the United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service.
New Zealand's iconic kiwi bird apparently once flew and is most related to the 10-foot elephant bird from Madagascar, not the Australian emu, says new research from the University of Adelaide in South Australia.
Armed with new budgetary recommendations from an independent review panel, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is apparently cutting its collection of funded missions.
The time-honored practice of collecting plant and animal specimens from the field for scientific studies and conservation has been defended by a large group of researchers in the journal Science.
Temperature, that is to say, the weather, can affect the determination of sex in insect offspring, says new research out of the University of Montreal in Canada.
All systems are go for a first-of-its-kind effort to contact and revive an unmanned space probe launched in the late 1970s to study the flow of solar wind and then abandoned by researchers two decades later.
The task of ridding a home of bedbugs can cost thousands of dollars if professional exterminators are called, but a new study shows how the pests can be driven away for only about a buck.
Congressional lawmakers have been told intelligent life from other worlds could be detected within 20 years - but that potential discovery could be jeopardized by government budget cuts.
American consumers now have another way to sweeten up their meals. The United States Food and Drug Administration has approved the new food additive advantame for use as a general-purpose sweetener and flavor enhancer in food, except meat and poultry.
Amid growing questions in the media and general public about its effectiveness as well as safety, the chemical triclosan, which has been marketed as a disinfectant in industrial and consumer products since the 1970s, has been banned for use by state agencies in Minnesota.
Snakes on a plane might make for a fun movie, but potentially deadly bacteria on a plane is what travelers really need to worry about, says a new study from Auburn University.
