Robin Lloyd

Cats account for a chunk of the more than 50 percent of the current U.S. asthma cases that result from allergies.

Dieters send cell-phone camera photos of meals to a computer to gauge what's on their plates.

The hand hygiene report card gives better grades to teachers and mothers.

Seismologists are quite unsure of what happens inside the Earth during a quake.

A bottleneck in air pipes is the reason bugs today don't grow to sci-fi size.

Baby oil is out. High-tech sunscreen is in.

Scientists consider only 1 percent of all cockroach species as pests.

Hundreds of oil-covered Magellanic penguins have surfaced off the Atlantic coast of South America.

Jawbone found in Ethiopia could reveal ancestors of earliest hominids.

It helps to be aware of heart attack triggers, even if they are mundane.

A chemical that also works as a stress hormone is the final signal that says you're out of gas.

A camera trap has photographed a tiger that lost part of its right front leg.

Candy cigarettes might make it so kids who play with them later really light up.

Infants see and hear things that older babies and adults cannot.

First anemone ever found to live in a whale carcass at the bottom of the sea.

Jury still out on whether sunscreens prevent melanoma.

President Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary Clinton don't always operate like a unified political animal.

Residents of the nation's capital are the most likely among residents of 32 cities surveyed to bust myths about tanning beds and base tans

Steroids are often implicated in a spike in batting averages in the late 1990s. But it was not just drug testing that brought averages back down, a new study reveals.

Lack of sleep causes testosterone levels to drop in older men, a new study claims.

Cell phones and iPods could soon be made with all-plastic chips that would allow the gadgets to survive being dropped over and over, thanks to work of a Dutch researcher.

Root beer is the safest soft drink for your teeth, new research suggests, but drinking many other sodas is almost like pouring battery acid on them.

If tanning is addictive as the study suggests, it helps explain why education alone will probably not stop high-risk tanning behavior.