In case you didn't know (and honestly, why would you?), Nov. 19 is World Toilet Day � an event hosted by the World Toilet Organization to raise awareness for the 2.5 billion people around the world who live without proper sanitation.

Regularly drinking alcohol dramatically cuts the risk of coronary heart disease in men, a major study suggests.

Increasing temperatures at high altitudes are fueling the post-1950 growth spurt seen in bristlecone pines, the world's oldest trees, according to new research. The pines near treeline have wider annual growth rings for the period from 1951 to 2000 than for the previous 3,700 years. Regional temperatures, particularly at high elevations, have incre

State wildlife biologists Tuesday will apply a poison to a pond near West Palm Beach where two piranhas were found last month.

In everything from computer processor chips to car engines to electric powerplants, the need to get rid of excess heat creates a major source of inefficiency. But new research points the way to a technology that might make it possible to harvest much of that wasted heat and turn it into usable electricity.

Finding old versions of web pages could become far simpler thanks to a "time-traveling" web browsing technology being pioneered at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

A leading genetics company that has pioneered personal DNA testing in health
assessments went bust today, raising privacy concerns about the sensitive
data it holds.

News from high in the Chilean Andes this morning: the ALMA observatory in Chile, the largest, most ambitious ground-based astronomy tool ever created, made its first measurements today.

Will this dawn bring another nova? Such dilemmas might be pondered one day by future humans living on a planet orbiting a cataclysmic variable binary star system. Cataclysmic variables involve gas falling from a large star onto an accretion disk surrounding a massive but compact white dwarf star.