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A unanimous Supreme Court rejected efforts by a plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit to keep his claim in state court rather than more business-friendly federal court by limiting the amount of money sought to under $5 million.

76ers center Andrew Bynum will undergo season-ending knee surgery tomorrow, but the Sixers won't be on the hook for his $16.9 million salary.

Institutions prepare for a brave new world in which cheap remote-controlled airplanes will be ubiquitous in civilian air space.

The day after PepsiCo Inc.'s bottling deal in Thailand expired, its partner of 59 years launched its own soft drink that has knocked Pepsi off store shelves.

As a society, we hand out antibiotics like candy, assuming the supply is never ending. But we're running out of antibiotics while the bacteria floating in our bodies is evolving and gaining resistance to even our most powerful antibiotics.

The Big Brother imagery conjured up by Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky during a filibuster this week has animated a diverse swath of political interests.

Rights to privacy are being battled out at Harvard.

Health officials say there is only a ¿limited window of opportunity¿ to halt the spread of deadly hospital infections that resist even the strongest antibiotics.

Food recalls in the U.S. hit a two-year high in the fourth quarter, according to a report released by a consulting firm. That comes to an average of six recalls per day, affecting about 18.4 million products.

With a new set of products and solutions, the apocalypse may have met its match.

The epidemic of power outages and "rolling blackouts" which nearly shut down California in the early 2000s may be returning -- but this time due to a shortage of green energy.

When a North American company discovered that the Chinese had hacked into its computer systems, it immediately shut down remote access to its clients¿ systems. Company officials and American intelligence agencies then grappled with a fundamental question: Why had the Chinese done it?

The Chinese government has admitted for the first time that decades of reckless pollution have spawned a string of toxic "cancer villages".

Residents near some East Coast ports are leery of the monster ships that will soon arrive because of a trade project thousands of miles away that they believe will harm their air quality, roadways and waterways.

Click here to read a new research report from the California Workers' Compensation Institute.