One in every 10 deaths among working-age adults in the United States aged 20-64 years can be linked to excessive alcohol use, according to new research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Orcas, or, killer whales, which spend at least part of each year in the Puget Sound, off the Washington state coast, are still at risk, despite years of study and human intervention.
More than 50 percent of all supposedly "bee-friendly" home garden plants sold at three of North America's top-volume plant retailers are, in fact, fatal to bees, says a new report from Canada.
New research out of Spain is challenging the long-held notion that Neanderthals, the evolutionary ancestors of modern humans, ate only meat -- a vital point in understanding the origins of modern diets.
Emperor penguins, the well-studied species popularized by the 2005 wide-screen documentary "March of the Penguins," are apparently much more adaptive than researchers thought.
One of the largest known diamonds in the universe has been spotted by an international team of astronomers working through the Virginia-based National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
Close to 200 gamblers through one Website have cashed in on the already-infamous bite Uruguayan soccer player Luis Suarez inflicted on an opponent during Uruguay's match against Italy 1-0 World Cup win Tuesday.
It's the outer space case of the vanishing moon island. That's what astronomers at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are calling an apparent land mass surrounded by one of the liquid methane spans on Titan, Saturn's largest moon -- the mass seems to have disappeared mere weeks after it was first spotted.
Even as Pope Francis earns ongoing attention for his stridently progressive views on issues including capitalism, homosexuality and even atheism, he steadfastly opposes legalizing recreational drugs.
Cases of the highly contagious bacterial disease whooping cough, or, pertussis, have exploded in California over the last month, prompting health officials to announce a state-wide epidemic.
James Gomez lit his July 4 fireworks a little early this year, one of many Los Angeles Kings hockey fans who celebrated their team's championship win Friday night with pyrotechnic displays of joy.
In its first whale hunt since an international court ordered its annual expedition in the Antarctic to be halted, Japan has caught 30 minke whales off its northern coast, officials with the country's fisheries agency have reported.
Not only is today Friday the 13th, but for those in the Eastern Time Zone, at precisely 12:11 a.m.,the date coincided with a full moon, and was as well seen in Asia, Africa, Europe and South America, as well as in the Eastern Time Zone, saw a June 13 true full moon.
Tobacco products including electronic cigarettes, as well as traditional cigars, may soon be regulated under new powers requested by the United States Food and Drug Administration.
Two federal agencies have revised the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans with a recommendation that women in their childbearing years and children should eat more fish.
Boston Children's Hospital and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have tied for first place an annual survey of the nation's best medical facilities for pediatric care.
The United States Food and Drug Administration has set new testing standards for infant formula, which manufacturers must follow, starting in September.
After a career that included an Olympic gold medal and 10 world titles in six weight divisions, Oscar De La Hoya, the nicknamed "Golden Boy" from East Los Angeles, has been inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
California transportation officials hired a Chinese engineering firm to make repairs to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, even though the company had never built a bridge before.
An underwater coral field in a shipping channel leading to the Port of Miami will apparently not be saved after all from a dredging that was set to begin today.
