Veterinarians today euthanized the 25-foot sperm whale stuck in shallow water near the mouth of Tampa Bay. ...more

January 1, 2008

Scientists on Saturday dissected a coelacanth, a species of fish known as a living fossil, at the Tokyo Institute of Technology's Yokohama campus, the first such dissection in the country since 1989, with Prince Akishino, an expert on catfish, looking on. ...more

December 23, 2007

Talk about your cosmic pileups. An asteroid similar to the one that flattened forests in Siberia in 1908 could plow into Mars in the next few weeks, scientists said. ...more

December 23, 2007

Vote for your favorite image of Saturn taken by the Cassini probe. Scientists are finding microbes in water frozen millions of years ago in Antarctica. ...more

December 10, 2007

I found that when I was pregnant, most of the women I knew would eventually ask me if I was going to nurse. ...more

December 7, 2007

Young galaxies, so faint that scientists struggled to prove they were there at all, have been discovered by aiming two of the world's most powerful telescopes at a single patch of sky for nearly 100 hours. ...more

November 29, 2007

A widely used tool for predicting a woman's risk of breast cancer is getting an update to better reflect black women's risk. ...more

November 28, 2007

Hurricane season ends Friday, and barring any unusual events, it was a quiet one for Florida: A strong area of high pressure kept the two most ferocious storms of 2007 pinned well to the south. ...more

November 26, 2007

Regarding "Scientists Re-Create Stem Cells" (front page, Nov. 21): The news of stem cells being created from adult skin cells is breathtaking. If this turns out to be the real deal, no news event in the past 2000 years (save one; I'm a Christian after all) can compare. I hope for the day when so many ailments can be effectively cured - not "treated" but truly cured. ...more

November 25, 2007

It is shaping up to be the biggest shift yet to a generic drug, potentially saving the nation $2 billion a year or more in prescription costs. ...more

November 4, 2007