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Older air traffic controllers can head off mid-air collisions at least as well as younger controllers, using experience to compensate for age-related declines in mental sharpness, a new study finds. T...

Arthritis affects almost 80 percent of Americans. And those affected are getting younger, according to Dr. Barry Waldman of OrthoMaryland and director of the Center for Joint Preservation and Replac...

Here?s some news about a taste-treat sensation that probably won?t be sweeping the nation anytime soon. PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), which has earned a reputation for...

Child protection must be given higher priority to protect vulnerable young people from abuse, a report says.

Pennsylvania's HB 300 is making decent progress. From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette : By the slimmest of margins, a House panel has approved Rep. Dan Frankel's bill to ban discrimination in housing and jobs against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people... The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette still needs to work on the whole religious angle. They seem determined to sell papers by tapping into a false argument. Note the lack of quotes from religious folks who aren't bigots. Note the lack of quotes from bill opponents who aren't people of faith.

Parts of China, India and the eastern US could all become too warm in summer for people to lose heat by sweating, expert warnsSevere global warming could make half the world's inhabited areas literally too hot to live in, a US scientist warned today.Parts of China, India and the eastern US could all become too warm in summer for people to lose heat by sweating - rendering such areas effectively uninhabitable.Steven Sherwood, a climate expert at Yale University, told a global warming conference in Copenhagen that people will not be able to adapt to a much warmer climate as well as previously thought.The physiological limits of the human body will begin to render places impossible to support human life if the average global temperature rises by 7C on pre-industrial levels, he said.'There will be some places on Earth where it would simply be impossible to lose heat,' Sherwood said. 'This is quite imaginable if we continue burning fossil fuels. I don't see any reason why we wouldn't end up

HOUSTON -- A federal judge approves a highly criticized plea deal that fines BP PLC $50 million for its criminal role in a deadly 2005 blast at its refinery near Houston that killed 15 people.

A schoolboy has become the youngest person ever to pass A level maths with a Grade A at the age of 9.

'Race to Witch Mountain' is the first kids' film in ages to have action beats that measure up to Hollywood's grown-up action fare.

Stockholm - A majority of Swedes support continued use of nuclear power and support has reached a new high, Swedish researchers said Thursday. The autumn 2008 survey by Gothenburg University researchers suggested that 51 per cent of the 3,250 people ...