Relief may be on the way for all those youngsters trembling at the thought of another needle jab. One day the flu vaccine may simply be placed under the tongue. ...more

January 29, 2008

Drivers talking on cell phones are probably making your commute even longer, concludes a new study. ...more

January 3, 2008

To the dismay of many, religion is becoming one of the defining issues of the presidential election campaign. From the scrutiny of Mike Huckabee's views about evolution and Mitt Romney's Mormonism on the Republican side, to unseemly e-mails questioning the religious upbringing of Barack Obama among Democrats, religious faith is once again front and center in electoral politics. ...more

December 26, 2007

Science fiction writers have suggested a future Earth populated by a blend of all races into a common human form. In real life, the reverse seems to be happening. ...more

December 21, 2007

For those who find the vast array of high-tech hardware that fills the National Air and Space Museum overwhelming - not to mention the constant hordes that fill the cavernous expanse - a more serene and equally informative scientific experience is available less than a mile away at the largely undiscovered Marian Koshland Science Museum. ...more

December 9, 2007

Hundreds of defendants sitting in prisons nationwide have been convicted with the help of an FBI forensic tool that was discarded more than two years ago. But the FBI lab has yet to take steps to alert the affected defendants or courts, even as the window for appealing convictions is closing, a joint investigation by The Washington Post and "60 Minutes" has found. ...more

November 18, 2007

Educators and psychologists have long feared that children entering school with behavior problems were doomed to fall behind in the upper grades, but two new studies suggest those fears are exaggerated. ...more

November 13, 2007

President Franklin Roosevelt, founder of National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (which later became the March of Dimes), wrote in a November 1942 letter to Basil O'Connor, the president of the organization, that '... nothing is closer to my heart than the health of our boys and girls and young men and young women. To me it is one of the front lines of our National Defense.' ...more

October 16, 2007

Like cattle being prepared for slaughter, some native children captured by the Inca were fattened up for months before being ritually sacrificed to the gods, a sequence of events calculated to elevate the victims' value to the gods and to strike fear into subjugated peoples, British researchers reported this week. ...more

October 6, 2007