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Scientists say they've successfully cloned a human embryo that can create customized stem cells

Survey of U.S. hospitals identifies 178 hospitals with low ratings for cost and quality of care

Key concepts Physical science [More]

Bring Science Home At Scientific American , we appreciate the value of a good experiment. So in May, we launched Bring Science Home as a series of free science activities for parents to do together with their six- to 12-year-old kids. We made sure the activities would be fun and easy to do, so families could complete them in an hour or less and usually with items or ingredients they already had around the house.

Rare malignancy notoriously hard to diagnose and treat

Apple's visionary founder died following seven year battle with islet cell neuroendocrine tumor,

Brain implants allow monkeys to move and feel virtual objects using only their thoughts

For decades scholars and public health officials have known that people with greater income or formal education tend to live longer and enjoy better health than their counterparts who have less money or schooling. The trend holds true wherever researchers look--in poor countries or rich ones, in Europe, Asia or the Americas--but two notable exceptions stand out.

Credit: Wikipedia/NASA NANTES, France--Makemake may well have the most exotic name of the dwarf planets, and it now looks to be just as unusual on its surface. [More]

In 1981, Inc. put Apple founder Steve Jobs on its cover next to this headline: "This man has changed business forever." The accomplishments of Jobs, who passed away last night , have been well-cataloged.

Last week a few of my twitter pals and I had a conversation about how we are proud to describe ourselves as ‘crazy’ and ‘ridiculous’. Sparked by Mark Changizi’s article at the Huffington Post on ‘What to do about all the crazy, ridiculous research ‘ out there, the general consensus was that sometimes what seem to be the most outlandish ideas are the ones that lead to the biggest advancements in science and elsewhere.

Editor's note: This story originally appeared in 2008. We are reposting a version of it in light of the death of Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs from complications from pancreatic cancer.

The Apple co-founder passed away October 5, but our digital lives leaped ahead dramatically as a result of his leadership [More]

Co-founder and former CEO of Apple Steve Jobs, has died at the age of 56.

Hollywood star Johnny Depp is backtracking over controversy from his recent interview with Vanity Fair in which he compared photo shoots to getting raped. CBSNews.com's Ken Lombardi reports.