Trevor Stokes

Number crunchers in Missouri and Ohio plan to develop new ways to analyze demographic data that could impact how $400 billion in federal and state are distributed annually.

Researchers deciphered the human genome, the book of life 10 years ago, a landmark that ushered in the era of personalized medicine, not yet a hoped-for wide-sweeping reality.

NASA handed over ownership of the defunct Endeavour spacecraft to the California Science Center in Los Angeles during a ceremony Tuesday.

Scientists have hypothesized that black holes, super dense masses with gravity so strong not even light escapes, can vacuum up stars and shred them to pieces and squash them to smithereens. Trouble is, proof of the ripped-up stars eluded astronomers - until now.

Researchers found the first genetic cause of melanoma - the most dangerous form of skin cancer -unrelated to hair, skin or eye color, typically associated with the disease.

Technology meant to thwart digital music pirates may actually spurn them on, according to new research.

Chalk it up to science by press conference, but an international team announced Monday they are convinced of finding Bigfoot, the mythical creature that has eluded capture by adventurers for generations.

A majority of Europeans say they consider climate change to be one of the most pressing global problems, above an ongoing economic unraveling, according to a new poll released Friday.

The world becomes overrun by zombies; flesh-eating hordes of the undead. Would you be prepared? The tongue-in-cheek question was posed in March by the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, not as a way to scare the living come Halloween, but to raise awareness of how unprepared residents can be for dire emergencies during natural disasters.

Two worsening tropical storms threaten to hit Mexico's Pacific coast early next week, while a category one hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean is expected to fizzle out before it hits the east coast.

Jiminy Cricket from the movie Pinocchio was a top-hat-wearing, umbrella-toting crooner, but if researchers are right, the fictional cricket from Walt Disney would also have taken a bullet for the one he loved.

On Saturday, expect the night sky to be filled with meteors, according to astronomers.

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine analyzed over over 300,000 free throws during five regular NBA seasons between 2005 and 2010 and concluded that the hot hand exists with individual players.

Monkeys, using only brain and no brawn, controlled a virtual hand the monkeys could sense in a demonstration that puts researchers closer to melding brain and machine. The research continues to pave the way towards creating artificial limbs that have the sensation of a real limb.

The Earth's oceans may have originated from comets, a once-outlandish notion that got further support Wednesday when astronomers reported on ocean-like water in one comet.

An Israeli scientist won the 2011 Nobel Prize for chemistry Wednesday for his discovery of crystals that packed in a pattern that never was repeated, research that colleagues ridiculed for years.

As if the news about the Arctic's ozone hole outsizing the hole in Antarctica in early 2011 wasn't bad enough, Tuesday, NASA officials released more bad news: sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean reached its second lowest level in recorded history in September.

In a feat of engineering magic, researchers at the University of Dallas in Texas made an invisibility cloak that is based on the mirage effect, an optical illusion similar to the waves formed over hot pavement or mirages found in the desert.

Wanna become an astronaut? Now's your chance. NASA will begin in November accepting applications for astronauts from the general public for the first time.

A Russian conference is setting out to do what no man has done before: Find Yeti. Yeti, otherwise known as Bigfoot, the Abominable Snowman or Sasquatch, has titillated explorers for over a century, with sightings of large footprints in mud or snow.

The U.S. government dangled a million-dollar carrot in front of the aviation industry to develop fuel-efficient aircraft and usher in a new electric airplane industry. On Monday, one competitor, team Pipistrel-USA.com of State College, Pa., came forth as the winner and grabbed the $1.35 million prize in the CAFE Green Flight Challenge, sponsored by search-engine hub Google and awarded by NASA.

Predicting who will receive the Nobel Prize is an annual guessing game for some, for others, such as Thomson Reuters, it involves statistics.

One of the three scientists awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine Monday used his insights into the immune system in treatments against the pancreatic cancer he suffered for four years.

A man-made ozone hole has formed above the Arctic comparable in size to the ozone hole above Antarctica, researchers reported Monday.

Three scientists shared the Nobel Prize for medicine Monday for their discoveries about the human immune system that forged the development of new treatments against infectious diseases and cancer.

People worldwide wake up happy, get grumpier as the workday drags on, but then reach a second wind of euphoria by day's end, researchers said Thursday.

Scientists trade information about their work, but a team of Canadian clinical researchers found that some of their colleagues may be inside trading, giving information on unpublished clinical trial data that can affect a drug company's stock.

A group of amateur planet sleuths is helping researchers online in the hunt for Earth-like planets far off in outer space.The voluntary planetary detectives recently bagged two potential planets, even as funding to continue collecting the data may be threatened.

After days of speculation, NASA officials announced Tuesday the location of the fallen Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite that crashed down to Earth.The Pacific Ocean - far away from landfall.