The Pentagon's effort to develop an anti-missile system to defend the United States remains hampered by inadequate testing, spare parts shortages and management lapses, according to an independent

Worried about growing resistance to genetically modified foods, some of the world's biggest biotechnology companies have decided to mount a huge lobbying and marketing campaign to counter their

reducing heart attacks and strokes: A drug that has been marketed for eight years to combat high blood pressure turns out to substantially lower the risk of heart attack, stroke and diabetes and its

Prime Minister Tony Blair waged a determined campaign for two and a half years to repair Britain's relations with its European Union partners and persuade Britons that the country's interests lie in

Under a program that permits whaling for scientific research, five Japanese ships set sail Tuesday for the Antarctic to kill 400 minke whales that will be consumed as gourmet meat back home. The

Greenpeace won its battle to delay new oil and gas exploration in the North Atlantic on Friday when a judge ruled that Britain had failed to apply the European Commission's Habitat Directive in

Male circumcision reduces the risk of HIV infection by at least 50 percent and may explain the vast discrepancies in the prevalence of the AIDS virus from one region to another across Africa,

Scientific experts from Britain and France are scheduled to meet Friday to discuss ways of lifting the continuing French ban on British

Senator Robert Smith, a New Hampshire conservative who recently forsook the Republican Party, and then rejoined it, has been elected chairman of the important Environment and Public Works Committee,

Scientists and drug companies have failed to notify the National Institutes of Health about six deaths that occurred in gene therapy experiments in the past 19 months, keeping details of the deaths