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Supreme Court rules human genes may not be patented.

The World Food Prize Foundation on Wednesday took the bold step of awarding this year’s prize to three pioneers of plant biotechnology whose work brought the world genetically modified crops.

It’s pretty hard for anyone to compete with going to the Moon -- but the astronauts weren’t the only ones on that journey. Lee Cowan reports their wives back on Earth were along for the ride too -- just a different kind of voyage.

A jury in Delaware says there was no medical negligence in a penile implant procedure that the patient said left him with an 8-month erection.

A long-term study from the Mayo Clinic highlights the danger of sleep apnea and its connection to cardiac arrest. Dr. Carol Ash, director of sleep medicine at Meridian Health, talks to the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts about how to recognize the symptoms of

A dramatic drop in the price of solar power technology last year helped the continued growth of renewable energy, according to a U.N.-backed report published Wednesday.

New fossil evidence of the earliest complete skeleton of an ancient primate suggests it was a hyperactive, wide-eyed creature so small you could hold a couple of them in your hand - if only they would stay still long enough.

News that a sport-fisherman reeled in a potentially record-setting mako shark off the Southern California coast earlier this week. Conservationists berated the catch because shark populations are vulnerable to overfishing worldwide.

Ten months after Curiosity’s daring Mars landing, the NASA rover is finally about to pack up and head toward the base of a mountain.

Scrapings from the bottoms of 2,500-year-old pottery containers have shed new light on the origins of French winemaking. Etruscan amphorae found near Montpellier in southern France once contained a type of wine flavored with thyme, rosemary and basil.