Low levels of good cholesterol are associated with diminished memory by age 60. Researchers encourage physicians to monitor levels of good cholesterol.

Outsmart your appetite by secretly trimming 100 calories each day.

Visually impaired people surf the net with the help of special screen-reading software which they install in their desktops. But they cannot use the net on the go. A new software, called WebAnywhere, tackles this problem effectively.

Before Richard Dawkins became famous as an anti-religion crusader, he reshaped the theory of evolution with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene. In the book, Dawkins proposed the idea that genes, rather than organisms, compete with each other for the chance to

Biologists at Harvard University have determined that some African frogs carry concealed weapons: When threatened, these species puncture their own skin with sharp bones in their toes, using the bones as claws capable of wounding predators.

Research into happiness suggests that our levels of happiness change throughout our lives.

After her oncologist prescribed a cancer drug that could slow the cancer growth and extend her life, Wagner was notified that the Oregon Health Plan wouldn’t cover it. It would cover comfort and care, including, if she chose, doctor-assisted suicide.

As Jim Morrison once warbled, No one here gets out alive. Once you stop growing, at around eighteen, you start dying. Even if you’re the healthiest man on earth you could die randomly on a flimsy ski lift or in some tsunami. But you probably won’t...

The tide of plastic isn’t rising only on Alaskan shores. In 2004 two oceanographers from the British Antarctic Survey completed a study of plastic dispersal in the Atlantic that spanned both hemispheres.

Explosive glass drops demonstrate why your car windshield is so strong and safe.