BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - Russian space authorities said on Saturday they had improved safety measures for spaceships returning to Earth from the International space station after a series of rough landings.

Decisions made more than half a century ago are a large cause of today?s health care mess. The result is that today?s health care system relies on employers to provide coverage and encourages more and more health insurance and spending.

A new model that predicts gravitational waves caused by fast moving air could help pilots avoid clear air turbulence

Nasa is pushing ahead with plans to launch its next Mars mission in 2009, but acknowledges that extra funds are required to make it happen.

Despite another overrun that could push its cost to more than $2 billion, NASA's next-generation Mars rover mission remains on track for launching next fall.

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Dr. George Palade, who won a Nobel Prize in 1974 for his work isolating and identifying cell structure and helped create one of the leading cell biology programs in the nation at the university of California, San Diego, has died. He was 95....

MedImmune announced today it will present four abstracts at the American Academy of Pediatrics 2008 National Conference & Exhibition that add to the company's growing body of research into the prevention of respiratory syncytial virus, a leading cause of viral respiratory infection among preterm infants.

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) -- The ongoing global economic turmoil and increasingly strained ties between Moscow and Washington will not stand in the way of further space exploration, Russia's space agency chief said Saturday....

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - Google co-founder Sergey Brin, considering going into space on a private flight, made a surprise visit to Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome on Saturday to wish good luck to a fellow space tourist.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - scientists have sequenced the genome of the giant panda, an achievement which may aid efforts to protect the endangered species, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.