Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) said it will stop selling metal-on-metal and ceramic-on-metal hip replacements following a number of lawsuits and as demand for the devices ebbs and U.S. regulators propose new rules.

I am so glad to see Apple get denied - no patent for Apple - at least for the iPad Mini.

The cloak of invisibility is a reality but just does not use magic. Scientists have used a form-fitting cloak to render an object invisible from any direction.

A House Science committee grilled NASA, White House and Air Force officials about what they're doing to prevent asteroids from impacting.

Researchers are looking at synthetic resveratrol which is naturally found in red wine. Resveratrol is thought to have an anti-aging effects because it boosts activity of a protein called SIRT1.

Scientists at CERN have apparently discovered the Higgs boson, the so called God Particle.

More than 2,800 dead pigs have been found in the Huangpu river that flows through Shanghai, raising concerns among city residents of contaminated tap water.

Researchers have discovered a groundbreaking new process that extracts the energy from coal without burning it with the added benefit of nearly zero pollution.

Researchers at Duke University have created cyborg rats by connecting an IR detector to their brain and this allows them to detect IR light.

That strange North Korean video which showed New York City presumably on fire after a missile attack has been pulled after Activision said the scenes were taken from Call of Duty.

Yet again the media was more intent on being first with a story than doing its due diligence and checking their information. The news of super-fast national wifi network was a media fabrication.

Barbara Walters, hospitalized 10 days ago after a fall, has a very rare care adult case of chickenpox. The news was revealed by her co-host Whoopi Goldberg Monday on ABC's The View.

Brendan Marrocco, the first soldier to survive after losing all four limbs in the Iraq War, has received a double-arm transplant.

Google moved 80% of pre-tax profit to Bermuda to lower its overall tax rate by nearly half. Google however was the third largest source of Obama's camapign dollars during the election.

At least for now Senator Leahy (D-VT) has abandoned his bill that would have allowed law enforcement agencies to gain warrantless access to Americans' e-mail accounts.

Physicists say that adjustments can be made to the proposed warp drive that would enable it to run on significantly less energy, potentially brining the idea back from the realm of science fiction into science.

Those tiny little countries Iran and North Korea have signed an agreement to co-operate in developing of nuclear weapons various science and information technology fields.

The NY Post is reporting that Barry from DC turned down a chance to have Cardinal Dolan recite a prayer at the Democratic National Convention after Dolan told Democrats he would be “grateful” to deliver a blessing in Charlotte.

A brilliant photo has captured the moment that Curiosity deployed it parachute to slow is descent to Mars. 

The Mars rover Curiosity had a successful landing early Monday morning. The signal that indicated landing was received at about 1:31 am EST on 8/6. Within minutes of landing, the Rover sent back an image showing one of its 6 wheels on the surface of Mars.