After rising steadily for more than 10 years, the proportion of U.S. kids defined as obese due to a large waist circumference held steady between 2003 and 2012, according to a new analysis of national data.

Four people died Sunday afternoon in a plane crash near Sedona that also caused a fire, according to officials.

The death of an Ohio teen after eating caffeine powder prompted the United States Food and Drug Administration to issue a warning about possible dangers of consuming the product.

Americans trust word-of-mouth and personal recommendations from doctors far more than provider quality data coming from the government or third parties.

A team of researchers led by Xiang Zhang, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, has created a lasing plasmon explosives-sniffing nanosensor that is free of metal losses and operates at a scale far below the diffraction limit for visible light.1 The sensor consists of a layer of the semiconductor cadmium sulfide on top of a silver …

Gilead’s controversial Hepatitis C drug Sofosbuvir (brand name Sovaldi) is back in the news again, this time not over its cost, but for successfully clearing Hepatitis C in patients with HIV. Hepatitis C is a contagious liver disease which can last anywhere from several weeks to a lifetime. Infection with HCV is often undiagnosed, with an estimated 50 percent of …

Pro-Palestinian French youth have clashed with police, in a second day of demonstrations, after defying a ban on protests against Israel’s Gaza offensive. Denouncing Israel’s escalating military offensive, several hundred young people went on a rampage, setting fire to cars, pillaging stores and attacking two synagogues in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, home to a large Jewish community.

A few short decades ago, the gray seals were almost completely wiped out of New England waters. But over the years, their population has grown immensely, so much so that people in the area are calling for controlled hunts.

Science comes to dating: you can now definitively tell if the stranger in front of you is looking for a romantic connection, or simply wants sex. It’s all in their eye movement, scientists reveal.

The European Union’s European Commission thinks free games with in-app purchases shouldn’t be called “free,” and has been pushing Apple and Google to change how they represent those apps to buyers. Google has capitulated, and now the EU is calling out Apple for failing to take action, although Apple thinks it’s already doing more than other companies to keep consumers …

Secretary of State John Kerry made the Sunday morning news show rounds to outline the United States’ case—citing American and Ukrainian intelligence reports and social media that “obviously points a very clear finger at the [pro-Russian] separatists”—that Russia was responsible for the attack that brought down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, killing 298 people.