William Staub, who is credited with bringing treadmills out of doctor's offices and into homes and gyms, died at his Clifton, New Jersey home on Thursday. He was 96.

His family said that he was still

Sally Ride, the first American woman to journey into space, died on Monday after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, her foundation announced. She was 61.

US President Barack Obama has named four Indian-American scientists among 96 researchers as recipients of the prestigious presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.

India is not converting all its weapons-grade plutonium into war heads, two top American nuclear scientists have claimed, estimating that it currently has 80 to 100 nuclear warheads for its emerging T

Cricket might sound and look like Greek to the Americans, but they are in full support of the cricket diplomacy between archrivals India and Pakistan.

Scientists claimed to have decoded brain activity of monkeys as they were able to predict how two monkeys were planning to approach the same task differently even before they moved a muscle.

Nasa has captured the highest resolution images ever taken of the sun’s million-degree atmosphere called the corona.

President Barack Obama will fly to Colorado on Sunday to visit the families of victims from the Aurora movie theater shooting, the White House announced, as he and Mitt Romney dialed back their campaigning in the shocked aftermath of the massacre.

A veteran economist at the International Monetary Fund has accused the global lender of suppressing information on difficulties in dealing with the global financial meltdown and eurozone crisis.

Observing that the 'truth- telling' of US President Barack Obama "evidently pricked the thin skin of India's politicians", a leading American financial daily has said he is in fact 'cheering' the Indian elite and not insulting them.