A 10-year study of sleep patterns during space flight has revealed lack of adequate sleep - and use of sleeping pills - is extensive among astronauts in the United States space program.
The face of soccer in the United States will have to get a makeover, now that Landon Donovan, known as the greatest player ever to hail from America, is hanging up his cleats.
Before we Earthlings can send anything bigger than just tiny remote-control dune buggies to Mars, not to mention crews of human explorers, spacecraft builders will have to develop adequate energy storage systems.
Top medical students showing leadership and commitment in pursuing careers in primary care will have the chance to earn their medical degrees in an accelerated three years, through the University of California, Davis.
New research out of Canada asserts older adults really do appear to function better earlier in the day - a hugely important factor to consider when studying the cognitive abilities of seniors.
The $16.3 billion legislation aims to improve health care at VA clinics The shocking condition of health care for veterans in the U. S. may soon be a thing of the past.
Critics continue to bash the phone Two weeks after the highly-anticipated launch of Amazon's first phone, Fire Phone, the negative reviews continue to tumble in.
School plans to post fliers advertising sex therapy in all university dorms Dear Prudence, I'm an incoming freshman at New York University and have found myself very confused sexually.
Amazon has been ahead of the competition but BN and Google are hoping to catch up. Google and Barnes & Noble announced a new service that threatens to undercut the famous undercutter of online book sales, Amazon, by offering free same-day service for subscribers.
Sunlight - or, more to the point, the vitamin D contained in solar rays - may be the secret to staving off dementia and Alzheimer's disease, says a new study from the United Kingdom.
The Federal Communications Commission is looking into Miley Cyrus' NBC Fourth of July weekend special to determine whether the show was indecent or profane.
Message comes at a time when U.S.-Russian relations are falling apart As if relations between the U. S. and Russia weren't already strained enough, some Russians couldn't resist sending President Barack Obama a racially charged birthday message, the Washington Times reported.
a vaccine and a treatment drug are in the works to help with the ebola outbreak. The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved streamlining the testing of a vaccine to help control the strain of the Ebola virus outbreak in western African countries.
No official confirmation, but Minecraft console release date could be in August An official release date for the Xbox One and Playstation 4 versions of Minecraft have been hard to come by.
Oregon has 10 fires burning and season is far from over A new wildfire has forced the evacuation of 275 homes in Rowena, Oregon, a town in the Columbia River Gorge, according to The Associated Press.
Justin Bieber smiles big as he speaks to Malala Yousafzai. Justin Bieber may have used his Instagram account to upset Orlando Bloom, but this week he used it for some good reasons.
The "Happy Birthday Marsha!" fundraising campaign on Kickstarter is collecting money to produce a short film on two LGBTQ leaders during the Stonewall Riots.
Scientists say a so-called dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico - where the water contains so little oxygen, if any, that bottom fish and other creatures can't survive - has grown about as big as the state of Connecticut.
