The extent of a possible Google Inc. pullout from China in its dispute with the communist government over censorship and hacking is unclear.

Children inherit about 30 mutated genes from each parent, fewer than had been thought, but enough in at least one case to pass on inherited illnesses, according to a first detailed look at the blueprint for human life in a family.

Does the brain process lyrics and melody separately or as one? Well scientists claim to have finally found an answer to the hotly debated question.

Four in five people across 26 countries of the world, including India, believe that access to the Internet is a fundamental right, according to a recent poll.

Google Inc. will sell the online services of other business software makers in an effort to fill its own product gaps and persuade more companies to rely on applications piped over the Internet.

Methane, a potent global warming gas, is bubbling out of the frozen Arctic faster than had been expected.

The fossilized remains of a 67 million-year-old snake found coiled around a dinosaur egg offer rare insight into the ancient reptile's dining habits and evolution, scientists said on Tuesday.

In the coming months and years, scientists will pore over reams of data from what turned out to be the minuscule tsunami that reached Hawaii on Saturday.

Scientists have detected more than 40 ice-filled craters in the moon's North Pole using data from a NASA radar that flew aboard India's Chandrayaan-I.

An iceberg about the size of Luxembourg, that struck a glacier off Antarctica and dislodged another massive block of ice, could lower the levels of oxygen in the world's oceans, Australian and French scientists said on Friday.

As more people reveal their whereabouts on social networks, a new site has sprung up to remind you that letting everyone know where you are - and, by extension, where you're not - could leave you vulnerable to those with less-than-friendly intentions. The site's name says it all: Please Rob Me.

World weather agencies have agreed to collect more precise temperature data to improve climate change science, officials said on Wednesday, as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged environment ministers to reject efforts by skeptics to derail a global climate deal.

A moment on the lips, forever on the hips? A bad figure is hardly the worst of it. Eating a lot of fat, especially the kind that's in biscuits and pastries, can significantly raise the risk of stroke for women over 50, a large new study finds. We already know that diets rich in fat, particularly artery-clogging trans fat, are bad for the heart and the waistline.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden says his agency has an ultimate goal: Mars. But he says it's more than a decade away and NASA needs to upgrade its technology before astronauts reach the Red Planet.

The United Nations says formal negotiations on an international treaty to control global warming will resume in Bonn in April, four months after the failed climate change summit in Copenhagen.

First it was just swatting. Then poison. Then sterilizing males. Now it's grounding females. Is there anything people won't try in the war against mosquitoes?

An Israeli archaeologist said on Monday that ancient fortifications recently excavated in Jerusalem date back 3,000 years to the time of King Solomon and support the biblical narrative about the era.

More than 30 years after the world greeted its first "test-tube" baby with a mixture of awe, elation and concern, researchers say they are finding only a few medical differences between these children and kids conceived in the traditional way.

While most people give it the brushoff, a panel of scientists gathered on Friday to focus on dust. Dust in the air. Dust in the oceans. Dust in your lungs. Good dust. Bad dust. And not a can of Pledge in sight.

British scientists claim to have developed a new therapy that can permanently cure deadly peanut allergies within three years, in a breakthrough that may help treat millions of people suffering from various kinds of allergies.

In a finding that could lead to new treatment for insomnia, a new study has claimed that sleeplessness may actually shrink a person's brain. The University of Cambridge study -- the first to link insomnia to a reduction in vital grey matter -- showed that those with chronic sleep problems had lower grey matter density in brain areas used to make decisions.

Top researchers now agree that the world is likely to get stronger but fewer hurricanes in the future because of global warming, seeming to settle a scientific debate on the subject. But they say there's not enough evidence yet to tell whether that effect has already begun.

Space shuttle Endeavour and its six astronauts closed out the last major construction mission at the International Space Station, with a smooth landing in darkness that struck many as bittersweet.

In a highly anticipated grand finale to their mission, astronauts opened the shutters on the International Space Station's new observation deck on Wednesday and were humbled by "absolutely spectacular" views of Earth from inside the elaborate atrium of windows.

Scientists claim to have created a new operating system for life -- a new way of using the genetic code, allowing proteins to be made with properties that have never been seen in the natural world.