Two new discoveries add to the rapidly increasing extrasolar planet count

With months left underground, Chilean miners face a harrowing mental ordeal

It wouldn't be summer without stories of jellyfish swarms stinging beachgoers. Now the minds behind JellyWatch want members of the public to become "citizen scientists" and record their sightings

Stem-cell scientists still reeling from a judge's ruling that their life's work violates federal law received little reassurance about their job security from the nation's largest funder of these studies

One reason Americans don't eat enough fish is that it's rarely in our diets when we're children

Bullying and nasty cliques start as early as elementary school, says Michelle Anthony, a developmental psychologist and the co-author (with Reyna Lindert) of Little Girls Can Be Mean: Four Steps to Bully-Proof Girls in the Early Grades

Stem-cell researchers say a court ruling could harm promising new science

The old saying was almost right: Men Who Don't Prosper are Cheaters

As doctors put out a call for a registry to help gather information on rare illnesses, pharmaceutical companies are realizing that medicines for small groups can bring big bucks. But is research into rare diseases just an excuse to cash in on sufferers?

The term mid-size terror bird sounds kind of bizarre at first, as though terror birds, whatever they might be, come in a range of sizes, all of them a bit scary -- sort of like coffee options at Starbucks.

A new study documents similar changes in the airway cells of nonsmokers amid those lighting up

"Can you hear me now?" If you're a teen, the answer may increasingly be no

Researchers at the University of Georgia believe that much of the oil from the BP spill is still present underwater in the Gulf of Mexico, where its impact on aquatic life is far from clear

Yankee great Lou Gehrig may not have had the motor-neuron disorder that was famously named after him

A new scientific paper warns that major studies are needed to figure out what the health impacts of such a major spill might actually be

An ecologist has come up with an imaginative way to monitor stocks of one of the world's favorite and most beleaguered species of fish -- by enlisting seals as census takers

A TIME investigation of Avandia's journey from lab to pharmacy reveals serious flaws in the way the Food and Drug Administration protects consumers from harmful medicines

A study's findings may push back the earliest evidence of stone-tool use by human ancestors another 800,000 years, to at least 3.2 million years ago

Shark-fin soup is eaten at weddings and other celebrations across Asia. But this gesture of largesse comes with a big environmental price tag

Some people's brains are better than others' at blocking out ambient sound during sleep. New research explains why

A new study finds that more young girls are entering puberty earlier, prompting researchers to wonder how early it can get

Experts have disagreed over the optimal period of time women should wait before conceiving after a miscarriage, but a new study suggests there is no reason to delay

What if we could read the mind of a terrorist? Researchers at Northwestern University say they have taken a step closer to that reality

Increasingly, research suggests that regular meditation can significantly improve focus and help sustain attention -- and you need not become a Buddhist monk to see benefits

Science is revealing just how smart other species can be -- and raising new questions abouthow we treat them

Researchers have found that women who gain too much weight in pregnancy have heavier babies -- and that heavier babies are more prone to obesity later on

After a long period of calm, a flare-up of solar activity. How a sun tsunami may trigger a spectacular show of northern lights across Russia, North America and northern Europe

For reasons both physiological and psychological, episodes of hunger in childhood may harm overall health and well-being far into the future

Can pathological Internet browsing lead to depression or other mental problems in otherwise healthy people?

A new randomized, controlled trial finds that the anesthetic ketamine may be a promising treatment for depression among patients with treatment-resistant bipolar disorder

Based on recent data, an expert suggests that as many as 20% of cesarean sections could be avoided in the U.S. simply by reducing the rate of elective labor induction

Why Victoria Stilwell and other experts are opposed to the submission techniques espoused by Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan

Though you wouldn't know it from the words chosen by angry American politicians -- who can't stop talking about the company's Englishness -- BP's name doesn't actually stand for British Petroleum anymore

A large new analysis of existing research finds disappointingly weak evidence that behaviors such as exercise and mental stimulation can prevent or slow the progression of dementia

The bigger the mess a big corporation finds itself in, the slipperier its use of language becomes. In the 52 days since its oil has been fouling the Gulf of Mexico, BP spokespeople have proven themselves masters of the art of linguistic obtuseness.

Most of them may have come from distant stars, not our own solar system

BP has promised to pay oil-spill damages in what it calls all 'legitimate' claims, but defining that word will shape legal battles for years to come

If an alternate form of life could exist with liquid methane taking the place of water in cells and other biological parts -- something that's theoretically conceivable -- Titan is just the sort of place it might thrive

An international consortium of scientists has discovered a rare set of genetic variations that may appear in 20% of children with autism

Scientists have confirmed what most assumed but BP has resisted: its leak is spreading underwater

Yokneam, Israel, is home to a large concentration of aesthetics-technology companies, like Ultrashape, that hawk all kinds of cutting-edge beauty treatments

BP is getting testy as its efforts to stop the Gulf oil spill seem limited by its capacity

A new study has found that the link between smoking and mood disorders may extend to passive, or secondhand, smoke as well

The first study to track children of lesbians from birth to adolescence finds that these kids do better than children in straight families on certain measures of social development

The new Manhattan high-rise is the most environmentally friendly commercial skyscraper yet

The new Manhattan high-rise is the most environmentally friendly commercial skyscraper yet

The successful completion of a cut in the riser pipe will allow BP to try to lower a containment dome over the leak to capture oil and siphon it to the surface

An explanation of how the same class of antidepressant drugs like Prozac and Paxil can be considered both cure-all and placebo

Multiracial patients in need of marrow transplants face steep odds, but one family has launched a global campaign to raise awareness and save their son's life