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Cataracts can lead to blindness, though it's preventable if you catch them early enough. But for the world's poor--many of whom live in remote regions far from the offices of an opthalmologist--diagnosis is difficult. Which is why MIT's Media Lab has put together a small portable tool that bolts to a smartphone to do the job, possibly even better than a quick eye exam could.

Studies highlight increased risk for autism in fraternal twins that don't share genes, and in moms who take antidepressants

For many of us, waking up in the morning is the toughest part of the day. [More]

TOKYO (Reuters) - Vast deposits of rare earth minerals, crucial in making high-tech electronics products, have been found on the floor of the Pacific Ocean and can be readily extracted, Japanese scientists said on Monday.

Dieters have long lamented how hard it is to keep weight off after losing it, but the results of a new study may help.

We have an exciting announcement to make this morning. Our new blog network has launched! To our existing line-up of eight blogs you are all familiar with, we have added another 39. There are now six editorial blogs, six personal blogs written by our editors and staff, and 42 independent bloggers who will write on our platform starting today

New concerns have been raised over the anti-smoking drug Chantix after a new analysis revealed an increase of heart problems. Dr. Jennifer Ashton reports

Fox News twitter hacking update, Google nixes real-time, more reasons for entrepreneurs to take vacations, and more. Fox News gets hacked! Hackers sent the web into a tizzy over the weekend by breaking into Fox News' twitter account and posting that President Obama had been killed. The New York Times has the latest , reporting that the tweets have been removed, Fox has released an apologetic statement, and that the Secret Service is going to investigate the situation

If you’ve ever wondered where the Earth came from, the answer, it seems, is blowin’ in the wind--the solar wind. Or so say scientists who, after examining solar wind samples collected by the Genesis spacecraft, conclude that the inner planets of our solar system formed a little differently than we’d thought. The work appears in the journal Science

On July 5, if all goes according to plan, the final countdown of the space shuttle program will begin. The launch clock at Kennedy Space Center, a giant digital display with 40-watt lightbulbs for pixels, will begin ticking down from 43 hours. When it reaches zero, Atlantis will rumble off the launch pad, and the final shuttle mission will begin

A few weeks ago as I was walking out of a Harris Teeter grocery store in Raleigh, North Carolina, I saw a man face a moment of crisis. You could see it in the acrobatic contortions of his face. He had pulled a cart out of the area where carts congregate, only to find that its handle was sticky with an unidentifiable substance

As long as the weather cooperates, Friday will mark the end of an era for the astronomy world, as NASA sends up its final manned spacecraft. However, odds are against the weather being trouble-free.

Editor's Note: MSU China Paleontology Expedition is a project led by Frankie D.

To most Americans electric cars are as new a concept as the first combustion vehicles were to horse-and buggy-drivers in the early years of the 20th century. But to the organizations around the world that have been working to make modern electric cars a consumer reality, it has taken decades to get to this point. In fact, the electric car industry is old enough now that it has developed its own internal conflicts--the biggest of which centers on vehicle charging

This is the second of a three-part series that looks back at the 30-year history of the U.S. space shuttle program.