Environmental monitoring of one of the statues is set up in Quarry 2. For more information visit the Easter Island Statue Project

Eating too much sugar can eat away at your brainpower, according to US scientists who published a study Tuesday showing how a steady diet of high-fructose corn syrup sapped lab rats’ memories.

In this week’s episode, Katie Couric talks to personal finance expert Carol Roth for great tips to quickly and easily sell your stuff.

The Obama administration adopts a landmark national strategy to fight Alzheimer’s on Tuesday, setting the clock ticking toward a deadline of 2025 to finally find effective ways to treat, or at least stall, the mind-destroying disease.

The Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft carrying the International Space Station (ISS) crew of U.S.

California Gov. Jerry Brown is facing the music. Hit with a soaring state budget shortfall of $15.7 billion – up from $9.2 billion as recently as January – Governor Brown announced proposals Monday to make $8.3 billion in painful, cross-the-board cuts that quickly elicited outcries from those affected.

Jennifer Lopez arrives with her son Max at a launch party for the new Gucci children’s collection in Beverly Hills, November 20, 2010.

A Canadian man was found guilty of the murder, assault and kidnapping of an 8-year-old girl on Friday, after a gruesome two-month court case that horrified the country. A jury in London, Ontario, found Michael Rafferty, 31, guilty of first degree murder, kidnapping and sexual assault, dismissing his girlfriend’s testimony that she alone was responsible for killing Tori Stafford.

Aimee Copeland, the woman who lost her left leg to a rare flesh-eating disease after a zip line injury, will likely lose her hands and remaining foot, according to her family.

FILE - In this March 1965 file photo shot by Associated Press photographer Horst Faas, hovering U.S. Army helicopters pour machine gun fire into the tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops in an attack on a Viet Cong camp 18 miles north of Tay Ninh, Vietnam, northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border.