A baby born some time this October will be the 300-millionth American, but he or she shouldn’t expect a house full of siblings.

Scientists are developing a battery with a tiny gas turbine engine that could last up to 10 times conventional batteries.

Women with breast implants have a lower mortality but higher suicide rate.

Digital imaging records 700-year-old manuscript written on crumbling palm leaves before it's put back in its wooden chest, never to be opened again.

Scientists could generate a black hole as often as every second when the world's most powerful particle accelerator comes online in 2007. But don't worry, they say.

Cranberries are perennial and grow on long-running vines in sandy bogs and marshes.