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Web site brings 40-year-old Apollo 11 NASA mission to life: Interactive site lets users follow NASA events during first mission to land on moon

Astronauts board shuttle for fifth launch attempt

Condoms May Reduce Herpes Risk: Unprotected skin may still transmit virus, but disease odds fall by 30 percent, study finds

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ORLANDO, Fla., July 10 (UPI) -- Colleen Shipman and Billy Oefelein, victims in the kidnapping plot allegedly formed by former U.S. astronaut Lisa Nowak, say they are getting married.

Americans see science as lagging here

Though low-calorie diets have been found to have anti-aging effects on animals, human studies are still in the early stage.

-> I've known about caloric restriction and life extension since I was in high school... the first time I learned about it was on tv...

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Americans value science, but not all of it: survey

Q+A-Why is the spread of Ebola in the Philippines a concern?

Antibiotics, oral route cut "abortion pill" risks

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RPT-Arctic ice thinned dramatically since 2004 - NASA

ScienceDaily (July 8, 2009) — Scientists have identified a gene that is essential for embryonic stem cells to maintain their all-purpose, pluripotent state. Exploiting the finding may lead to a greater understanding of how cells acquire their specialized states and provide a strategy to efficiently reprogram mature cells back into the pluripotent state, an elusive step in stem cell research but one crucial to a range of potential clinical treatments.

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Anyone who studied a little genetics in high school has heard of adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine - the A,T,G and C that make up the DNA code. But those are not the whole story. The rise of epigenetics in the past decade has drawn attention to a fifth nucleotide, 5-methylcytosine (5-mC), that sometimes replaces cytosine in the famous DNA double helix to regulate which genes are expressed. And now there's a sixth. In experiments to be published online Thursday by Science, researchers reveal an additional character in the mammalian DNA code, opening an entirely new front in epigenetic research.

New climate strategy: track the world's wealthiest

NEW YORK (AP) — Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Tuesday a study shows its human papillomavirus vaccine Cervarix was effective against the types of HPV that are most likely to cause cervical cancer, but also fought other strains of the disease.

Panasonic eyes $315 million in medical robot sales

the Michael Jackson Memorial was on TV today

Artificial brain cells could treat Parkinson's

Young children 'should be taught evolution so they don't mistake Fred Flintstone for scientific fact'

Forensic fingerprinting discovery was a happy accident, admits 'grandfather of DNA'

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Backup plan to get NASA to moon cheaper

CrunchGear Founder Set To Launch 'Dirt Cheap' Tablet

Best Buy Selling Electric Vehicles

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration released final rules governing stem cell research on Monday that will allow many older stem cell lines to be eligible for federally financed research.

How we love those drugs

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Astronomers See A New Class of Black Hole

George "Geohot" Hotz jailbreaks iPhone 3GS in two weeks

"Diamond Dust" Snow Falls Nightly on Mars

An unacceptable number of species are still being lost forever despite world leaders pledging action to reverse the trend, a report has warned.

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The Case of the Shrinking Sheep

While storekeepers were frantically pulling E. coli-tainted cookie dough and beef from their shelves last month, scientists rolled out the country's first cattle vaccine to snuff out the potentially deadly bacteria.

Photos: Mars rover Spirit down but not out

ScienceDaily (July 2, 2009) — A molecule called telomerase, best known for enabling unlimited cell division of stem cells and cancer cells, has a surprising additional role in the expression of genes in an important stem cell regulatory pathway, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The unexpected finding may lead to new anticancer therapies and a greater understanding of how adult and embryonic stem cells divide and specialize.

Regenerative medicine group launches in D.C.

LOS ANGELES—Doctors at a Los Angeles-based hospital have injected a heart patient with specialized stem cells grown from his own heart tissue in an attempt to reverse scarring after a heart attack.

Self-confidence is built into our genes, say scientists

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India court overturns ban on gay sex

Lunar Probe Sends First High-Res Images

Roadside assistance for Mars rover

NASA Shuttle Program Manager Proposes Cheaper Moon Travel

Gene variations hinder mental illness tests

How salamanders could teach us how to grow human limbs

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Global Gaming snaps up Pirate Bay

Do people really still pay for music?

NASA: Space shuttle fueling test looks successful

Human heart master cells identified

Celiac disease four times more common than in '50s

It seems like everyone already has some sort of digestive disorder...

Super-colony of ants rivals human society as population stretches around the globe