Members of Brazil's environmental police force IBAMA and the Para state police inspect logs discovered during "Operation Labareda," a raid against illegal logging, near Novo Progresso in the Amazon rain
Sixty thousand women say they've taken fertility treatments-a trend that's sparking more multiple births. Fewer than 1 percent of single babies die. But the danger rises for multiples conceived with
The concept of a solar powered aircraft that roams the upper atmosphere inches one step closer to reality this week. On Nov. 19, NASA will for the first time publicly test launch Centurion, a
Can you eat to beat malignancy? A controversial diet book is just one sign of the evolutionary new thinking about food and health : a
The experiments are so inflammatory that US Congress prohibits the National Institutes of Health from funding them. Yet they are so alive with promise-the promise of understanding how a hollow ball
A team of researchers from the United States and Sweden have found startling evidence that nerve cells or neurons, may regenerate. Their work could someday lead to a miracle for people with
There was a new hope for the women most vulnerable to breast cancer. The Food and Drug Administration approved the drug tamoxifen-already used in breast cancer treatment for 20 years-as the first
A slew of recent and upcoming papers pinpoint how talking with your hands can unlock what Robert Krauss professor of psychology at Columbia University calls "lexical memory." One study, for instance,
The problem with the most dangerous volcano on Earth is that, at the moment, it's also one of the sleepiest. These days tourists visiting Italy's Mount Vesuvius can hike up a broad path to the rim of
Needed medicines are hard to find, and state-of-the-art treatment is rare: Cuba's health system, the jewel of Castro's revolution and pride of the Third World, is in grave condition. In many ways, it
Beijing's censors won't let the local press say just how much devastation the Yangtze flood has done : a
