Want to get rid of some unsightly hair, but don’t want to spend the big bucks for electrolysis or a laser clinic? Now, you can buy your own laser and do it yourself. And people are. The growth...

As of today, humankind may have a new mother, and she looks nothing like we expected her to. Described in a series of papers published Thursday in Science, Ardi (short for Ardipithecus ramidus) likely walked upright one million years before Lucy, the...

Dry-eye sufferers and glaucoma patients may soon be able to trade their messy eye drops for a contact lens that delivers medication gradually over time. Although eye drops account for 90 percent of all eye medication, drops are irritating and ineffi...

Before the Nikes, before the breathable, antimicrobial running shorts, before the personal fitness coaches, heart rate monitors, wrist-mounted GPS and subscriptions to Runner’s World, you were a runner. And, like all children, you ran barefoot...

In a potentially landmark study on the biology of aging and how to delay it, a drug gave elderly mice the human equivalent of thirteen extra years of life. Though the drug is an immune system suppressant that almost certainly won’t have the sa...

  Isotopic analyses of the gases krypton and xenon suggest that much of Earth’s atmosphere came from outer space, not inner space. Krypton and xenon appear in Earth’s atmosphere — and in the universe as a whole — only in trace amounts....

If you sleep like a princess, and no amount of memory foam can keep you from tossing and turning, perhaps there’s a gadget that can find your pea. Several companies are hawking electronics that allow consumers to monitor their sleep. Matt Bell, an...

The 40-foot long Tyrannosaurus rex that failed to sell at a Las Vegas auction in October has finally found a home in an Oregon museum. Though the skeleton, one of the most complete ever found, was purchased by a private buyer, it will be on display at...

A bunch of data nerds from inside and outside NASA will gather at a house in Cupertino, California called the Rainbow Mansion this Saturday to hack through the agency’s data jungles. The event isn’t NASA-sponsored. None of the bureaucracy is involved...

Veteran astronomer Ned Wright is already considered pretty smart. But soon he’ll be getting wise. That’s WISE as in Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, the NASA spacecraft set for launch on December 11 that will provide the most comprehensive...