On the road in Kentucky in search of two American originals: a strong brown whiskey and a high lonesome music.

The Israeli economy has adjusted in surprising ways to the market power of the ultra-Orthodox community.

Running?s national governing body has banned the use of headphones and portable audio players at its official races.

The first headquarters of the nation?s secret effort to build the bomb lay in New York City.

Can nine billion humans survive and try to improve their lives without depleting the planet?

Environmentalists cheered when a conservancy acquired 161,000 acres, but not all the land will be preserved.

The torn panel on the International Space Station has created a new difficulty for a space shuttle mission that has already had more than its share.

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Clayton Anderson has been living aboard the International Space Station since June, and will hitch a ride home on Discovery at the end of its mission.

As the climate warms, Greenlandic farmers are experimenting with vegetables that have previously never been grown in the country.

Dr. Kornberg?s Nobel Prize-winning discovery of how DNA is assembled helped ignite the biotechnology revolution.

Richard Thompson, who began powering his home with solar power in 2001, has found that power is the easy part. Generating interest takes work.

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is staking $12.5 billion on a bid to catch up with the West in science and technology.

New research underscores a vast transformation in the way scientists have come to understand the sleeping brain.

By all evidence, outrageously bad dreams are a universal human experience.

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the changes were part of a normal review process and not aimed at minimizing the impact of global warming.

Alarmed that a 52-year-old paper was stoking the arguments of creationists, a chemistry professor has retracted a paper on the origins of life.

Poor sleep among the elderly, it turns out, is not because of aging itself, but mostly because of illnesses or the medications used to treat them.

Bird sleep is so mysterious that scientists are considering several answers, all intriguing.