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With the Supreme Court set to rule on the constitutionality of the Obama administration's health care reform law, one state is paying particular attention.

By Natasha Gilbert of Nature magazine Governments from more than 90 countries have agreed to establish an independent panel of scientists to assess the very latest research on the state of the planet's fragile ecosystems. [More]

LONG BEACH, Calif. – Kelp off Southern California was contaminated with short-lived radioisotopes a month after Japan’s Fukushima accident, a sign that the spilled radiation reached the state’s urban coastline, according to a new scientific study. [More]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California's powerful air-quality regulator on Friday approved sweeping new rules to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles by requiring automakers to put many more electric and hybrid vehicles on the state's roads. The regulations, approved unanimously by the state's Air Resources Board at a meeting in Los Angeles, would also support development of an infrastructure for hydrogen fueling stations. [More]

Xi-Jun Ren and Yang Xiang from Henan Universities in China, in collaboration with Heng Fan at the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have produced a theory for a quantum cloning machine able to produce several copies of the state of a particle at atomic or sub-atomic scale, or quantum state, in an article about to be published in EPJ D

Minors in the state of California will no longer be allowed to use tanning beds after Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill on Sunday prohibiting anyone under the age of 18 from using ultraviolet tanning devices.

By David Cyranoski of Nature magazine There's a showdown brewing in the state of Texas -- and it could get ugly. [More]

By David Cyranoski of Nature magazine There's a showdown brewing in the state of Texas -- and it could get ugly.

Controlling a boiling plasma at several million degrees Celsius – that's the challenge of nuclear fusion, our great energy hope for the future. EPFL's Plasma Physics Research Center (CRPP) has just published two scientific articles that advance the state of knowledge in the domain.

Preservation groups in the state of South Carolina filed a lawsuit on Monday against Carnival Cruise Lines, claiming the company's ships pollute Charleston and threaten its historic charm.

California doctor Michael Kamrava, who gave Nadya "Octomom" Suelman fertility treatments, is losing his license, for "public safety," according to the state medical board.

The ongoing debate over cruise liners docking in Charleston has reached well beyond the city's historic waterfront.

PGT: In New Orleans, the most famous Bubba in the state may not be a fictional character anymore. Move over, Bubba Gump — the Bubba Watson Golf Company is open for business.

Legislation on California state Sen. Mark Leno's desk has the potential to affect every household in the U.S.

At six hospitals in Alabama, an avoidable bacterial infection got into the bloodstream of 19 patients, possibly causing the death of nine. Mark Strassmann reports on the state's new outbreak of so-called "superbugs."