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The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Lee is forecast to strengthen rapidly into an "extremely dangerous" major hurricane this weekend as it nears the Lesser Antilles and Caribbean.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday announced a number of cuts to big programs in the Pentagon's upcoming budget. He did, however, call for more money to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Published reports this weekend say Yahoo has sent a letter to Microsoft rejecting a bid by the giant software maker to buy the search-engine company. But the letter could just be a negotiating ploy.

When online health insurance marketplaces for small businesses open this fall, some will offer more plans than are now available. But others will have to wait for at least a year before they have a fuller range of choices.

We explore the case of 94-year-old Siegfried Meinstein. The Internal Revenue Service thinks the Ohio man is dead. They blame the error on the Social Security Administration, but the agency pushes the blame back on the IRS.

A scientific panel found that Marc Tessier-Lavigne did not directly have a hand in falsifying data, but that he did not properly oversee members of his lab who did.

On Friday afternoon, spectators had a chance to see the most current images of Mars possible — which take 3 to 22 minutes to reach Earth — courtesy of the European Space Agency.

A scientist has used new genetic-sequencing technologies to identify the strain of anthrax in the 2001 attacks, the cause of anthrax contamination in European heroin, and the source of a cholera outbreak in Haiti.

When James Lacy was growing up, his father prospered by running a general store in rural Texas. But the merchant lost everything in the economic collapse of 1929. Though his dad spent decades paying off debts, Lacy says, he was rich in other ways.

When Crichton died of cancer in 2008, he left behind an unfinished techno-thriller. Superb science-writer Richard Preston has completed Micro, the story of young scientists who get shrunk to a size smaller than ants when a nanotech invention is used for evil.