SINCE 1900, the life expectancy of Americans has jumped to just shy of 80 from 47 years. This surge comes mostly from improved hygiene and nutrition, but also from new discoveries and interventions

DES is a drug tragedy not only for women but for men too. Yet, far less research on the devastating health effects of DES has been carried out on men.

Google gets more than one million job applications per year. It has a five-interview hiring process. And applicants are asked some of the strangest, left-field questions imaginable. Can you answer these questions correctly?

Hospitals across the U.S. have stopped giving pacifiers to newborns in order to encourage breastfeeding, but a new study casts doubt on the usefulness of that practice.

Facebook, a $68 billion company that is constantly seeking ways to monetize its users and their personal data.

A divided Supreme Court halted a legal challenge Tuesday to a once-secret warrantless surveillance project that gobbles up Americans’ electronic communications, a program that Congress eventually legalized in 2008 and again in 2012.

Yahoo spokesperson Lauren Armstrong also issued the same statement to Mashable on Wednesday, when asked about the company's new policy: "We don't discuss internal matters..."

The State Department’s “don’t worry” environmental impact statement for the proposed Keystone XL tarsands pipeline, released late Friday afternoon, was written not by government officials but by a private company in the pay of the pipeline’s owner.

Red Bull invited Tom Cruise to take a break from production of his new movie, Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol, to pilot the Red Bull Racing F1 car through Southern California's 2.5-mile (4km) Willow Springs circuit.

“Our daughter lives about a mile from us, in a rural area. One night, while her son and husband were away, she comes over to visit. She’s over 40 now, but still, when she leaves, I say, ‘give me a call when you get home’.”

Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell took to the New York Daily News op-ed pageWednesday with a message to local officials: stop worrying and learn to love fracking.

The Huffington Post compiled news reports of gun-related homicides and accidental deaths in the U.S. since the massacre in Newtown, Conn. on the morning of Dec. 14

Julian Assange is no stranger to controversy and this time the whistleblower is making headlines for a different reason. Australia has confirmed that the WikiLeaks co-founder is running for office.

This is a message we can not let slide. Our lives depend on it. Proud to say this was written by a very special friend, Linda West "morningmayan"

We regret to inform you that late last night President Barack Obama signed H.R. 933, which contained the Monsanto Protection Act into law. President Obama knowingly signed the Monsanto Protection Act over the urgent pleas of more than 250,000 Americans who asked that he use his executive authority to veto it.