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By Eric Hand of Nature magazine John Grunsfeld, an astrophysicist and astronaut who fixed the Hubble Space Telescope, has been chosen to lead NASA's science mission directorate, according to several sources with knowledge of the selection.

Overweight people snacked less but took in more calories, study found

courtesy of iStockphoto/zanskar Weakening eyesight can be sharpened with lenses, and impaired hearing can be improved with aids. What about a failing sense of smell ? [More]

Naomi Oreskes is a science historian, professor at the University of California, San Diego, and co-author (with Erik Conway) of "Merchants of Doubt," a book that examined how a handful of scientists obscure the facts on a range of issues, including tobacco use and climate change.

One hundred years ago, an American pharmacist named Wilbur Scoville developed a scale to measure the intensity of a pepper s burn. The scale as you can see on the widely used chart to the left puts sweet bell peppers at the zero mark and the blistering habanero at up to 350,000 Scoville Units

New research says hearing loss is becoming one of the most common physical conditions after arthritis and heart disease. Jeff Glor talks to Dr.

Common cause of blindness in seniors affects more than 200,000 a year

Number of newly infected people with HIV remains unchanged since 2007, report said

FDA withdraws blockbuster drug's approval for breast cancer, saying evidence doesn't confirm benefit

Are we biologically inclined to couple for life?

One junior high schooler and his mobile game totally changed the fate of this app development platform. The circumstances may differ, but for successful startups there’s always a tipping point

Strong interpersonal relationships have been shown to ward off drug addiction, and new clues as to why come from prairie voles--rodents that form long-term, monogamous bonds with their mates. [More]

By Eric Hand of Nature magazine It is sometimes said that Mike Malin knows Mars better than anyone else on Earth. [More]

It's easy to knock electric vehicles (EVs) : It takes too long to recharge the batteries and there are too few places to do it. And besides, who will pay for all the new recharging stations that would be needed if the cars catch on? The International Energy Agency’s most optimistic scenario puts (pdf) plug-in hybrids or EVs at 15 percent of all cars on the road by 2020; other projections predict a mere 3 percent

Back in the 1950s, astronomers discovered a strange population of stars on the lam. Known as OB runaways, these massive stars tear through space at surprisingly high speed--sometimes hundreds of kilometers per second.