Medical underwriters are indeed "misfortune tellers". It's true that 1% of policy holders are responsible for 40-50% of most insurance policy claims. Their job is to hunt you down, you 1%, and deny you coverage.

The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff Wednesday: Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer.

House Republicans on Thursday scuttled a bill that Democrats hoped would help lower gasoline prices by forcing the Energy Department to release 70 million barrels of oil — about a three-day supply — from the national stockpile.

If you judge the progress of humanity by Homer Simpson, Paris Hilton, and Girls Gone Wild videos, you might conclude that our evolution has stalled—or even shifted into reverse. Not so, scientists say. Humans are evolving faster than ever before.

A 50-year-old woman has witnessed her husband and three children falling to their deaths while climbing near Europe's highest peak.

News from last night's Digg Town Hall meeting in Chicago. Photos, links and the whole sordid tale of the Kevin Rose imposter look-alike.

4chan has been under a DDOS attack for the past three days.

I'm happy to report that every single Democratic challenger with more than $500k in cash on hand has announced their support for net neutrality. This is a milestone for the fight for internet freedom.

Making meat without killing animals could fix a host of problems. The notion of lab-grown meat is not as nutty as it sounds. Scientists have grown living tissue in the laboratory since the 1880s.

AMERIGROUP Corporation (NYSE:AGP) has appointed three senior executives to three key senior management positions within AMERIGROUP Corporation.