Jeremy Manier

As Vatican officials hail the efforts of a Roman Catholic couple in Florida to save the life of their brain-damaged daughter, some ethicists and theologians argue the measures contradict traditional...

The excitement many Fermilab researchers felt on Friday at the debut of a $180 million instrument to study the fundamental properties of matter was dampened for some by fears that...

In a case that has drawn national attention, a split federal appeals court in Chicago on Friday shot down a Justice Department bid to obtain medical records from a Chicago...

The Bush administration moved on Tuesday to ban the dietary supplement ephedra, which federal regulators first recognized as a potential danger six years ago. The struggle to ban the herbal...

The potent flu strain that has caused a rush on flu vaccine at doctors' offices might be less of a threat were it not for flaws in the way such...

In what could be the capstone of the Voyager 1 spacecraft's remarkable 26-year tour of the solar system, the unmanned probe--the most distant human-made object--appears to have reached the frontier...

Amid furious finger-pointing over who's to blame for the nation's largest blackout ever, there is one cause on which all parties seem to agree: The U.S. power grid is outmoded,...

Having largely solved what was once the deep mystery of the Columbia disaster, investigators Friday released their most detailed analysis of the events that led to the destruction of the...

Hoping to halt the spread of the exotic monkeypox virus, state health officials spent Monday in an often-frustrating search for more than 100 people who bought animals from aVilla Park...

A bill to ban a class of certain late-term abortions passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, escalating a moral debate and sharpening disagreement about what types of abortion...