The heavyweight of the flower world never fit in with the other plants, until now. Scientists found the basketball-size bloom belongs to a plant family made up mostly of teeny blossoms.

An edgily-named coffee company based in San Francisco, opened for business yesterday with its own special brew of super-caffeinated coffee.

For older adults, having a higher education level may mean a faster decline in word memory, according to a new study.

Money talks, but can it also follow your movements? The U.S. Defense Department warns of a new espionage threat: Canadian coins with tiny radio frequency transmitters hidden inside.

When researchers finally bother to get to the heart of the matter, they find some serious differences in the tickers of men and women.

A newly identified wheat gene produces proteins that appear to attack the stomach lining of a crop-destroying fly larvae so that the bugs starve to death.