Scientists in India have developed a way to extract juice effectively for the first time from a berry which is thought to be good for the heart....

The so-called "hole" in the earth's protective ozone layer is at a new record -- 10.6 million square miles of sky around the South Pole -- even though most nations agreed back in 1987 to phase out the...

Paul Goldstone, the CEO of DomainIt (www.domainit.com) will be arrested and placed in the MDA Lock-up on October 31st after being charged with having a "Big Heart". Goldstone's participation in the Mu...

Disney says it's concerned about kids' eating habits. But the company can't turn down the huge profits associated with helping junk-food companies market to children....

Tag is now out during recess at Willett Elementary School in Attleboro. So is touch football and any other unsupervised "chasing" games that are deemed to pose the risk of injury as well as liabili...

Concerns have been raised that breast cancer screening might lead to some women undergoing unnecessary treatment. Researchers looked at international studies on half a million women....

Ingredients of a mildly alcoholic milk drink could help protect children from food allergies, research has suggested. Kefir is a fermented milk drink made from live bacteria cultures which is credi...

Every year, hundreds of millions of monarch butterflies converge in the forests of pine and oyamel fir in central Mexico's Sierra Madre mountains. Some have flown thousands of miles, from as far away...

Dogs that bark to warn epileptics about an oncoming seizure and help them when they have a fit could be available in Britain under a programme being considered by UCB, the global biopharmaceuticals gr...

DIET products make people eat more, says nutritional toxicologist Peter Dingle. He said some sweeteners in diet products were linked with stimulating appetite. "Aspartame, commonly known as the sw...