Daily jabs of insulin are a painful reality for many with diabetes. That may change if researchers who have successfully tested oral insulin in rats are able to replicate those results in humans.

Atlanta’s public transit authority has begun installing $10,000 urine detectors to try to stop people from relieving themselves in subway elevators. Apparently, MARTA — the eighth-largest public transit operator in the country — has a wee problem wit ...

Researchers at the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University say that Apple Inc.’s iSight camera system among other webcams can be vulnerable to hijack hacking. However, 19-year-old Miss Teen USA, Cassidy Wolf, found out the hard way ...

In his first interview for the Western media, Pei-Shen Qian insists on his innocence in the Knoedler gallery forgery scandal...

Here’s a little-known fact to give sick folks high hopes — New York already has a law on the books to dispense marijuana to cancer patients. The medical-marijuana law was approved by the state Legislature and then-Gov. Hugh Carey in 1980 following an ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected water in the atmospheres of five planets beyond our solar system, two recent studies reveal. But finding water in their atmospheres still marks a step forward in the search for distant planets that may ...

In Syria, we have forgotten our promise of “never again.”

The Department of Health and Human Services will replace Verizon Communications Inc. VZ -0.25% 's Terremark subsidiary as its web-hosting provider for the federal health-insurance marketplace, according to people familiar with the matter, presen ...

Third quarter global smartphone sales came out earlier this week. The message was clear: Apple is getting its clock cleaned by Samsung, which is now by far the dominant smartphone maker in the world. (Samsung had 32% of the global market in Q3, the s ...

Exactly how far did director Lars Von Trier go with his racy film “Nymphomaniac?” Newly released posters for the movie show A-List stars like Shia LaBeouf and Uma Thurman naked and in the heat of the moment, but did the actors actually have sex while ...

Red Bull Racing driver Sebastian Vettel is quick. Too quick. The three-time Formula 1 champion dominated the Singapore Grand Prix, leaving his closest competitor 32.6 seconds behind as he took his eighth win of the season. In F1, where teams battle i ...

The London School of Economics and Political Science has released a new policy brief urging the UK Government to look beyond the lobbying efforts of the entertainment industry when it comes to future copyright policy. According to the report there is ...

A 66-year-old Colombian man had to have his penis amputated after overdosing on Viagra, according to various reports. Gentil Ramirez, a farmer and former local politician living in the southern town of Gigante, reportedly took several of the blue ere ...

The Cambrian Explosion, a period in time when life on Earth diversified dramatically, was likely caused by several factors, including gene changes, sea level rise and an influx of calcium into the oceans, new research suggests.

Breaking Bad fans, it's time to retool those DVRs. According to a recent tweet from writer-producer Peter Gould, the series' final two episodes will be "extra long," running past their standard hour length.

One of these potential endings might satisfy you, or none might. But Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan and his collaborators had to come up with something to finish their AMC crime drama, which airs its series finale September 29, and may or may no ...

If you take the long view - and by "long view" we're talking 10 days - there have been three distinct paths the United States could have taken on Syria.

Around the world, the status of fish and fisheries is grim indeed. Approximately 85 percent of global fish stocks are either over-exploited, fully-exploited, depleted or recovering from depletion. But rigorous management efforts have resulted in some ...

In 1972 an awful backroom compromise kept the Supreme Court from abolishing the death penalty.

We may all have a sixth sense-and not in the "I see dead people" way. This sense, rather, is a more of a numerical sense that scientists have discovered, where numerosity is associated with the part of the brain and is organized topographic ...