Funding for the newest Breakthrough Prize is announced as the awards for life sciences and physics are given at a California ceremony.

This gratitude project is simple, quick, creative and you probably have everything you need to participate in your pocket already.

With a donation of $970 million, the Facebook co-founder has become the country's top philanthropist for 2013.

A random YouTube video leads to the reunion of two sisters who grew up 5,000 miles apart.

According to some experts, the ubiquitous BFF self-portraits may be responsible for a significant increase in head lice.

The social network's acquisition of the makers of the Oculus Rift headset promises to change the way we experience online media.

Years of futile searching didn't work, but a single Facebook plea connects the two women in less than 24 hours.

Back in 1971, Jane Goodall observed a group of chimps break out in civil war. Now new social network analysis offers an explanation for this violent behavior.

Family, friends, and Facebook join in the efforts to remember Kristina Chesterman by making her biggest dreams come true.

One Australian is on a mission to have coffee, one-on-one, with each of his 1,088 Facebook friends. The question is, would you want to do that?

The idea grew out of disaster message boards that sprung up on Facebook after Japan's most recent natural disaster.

If you see this tagline on your teen's social media pages, here's what's going on.

Thanks to the power of social media, Chester the pit bull spent his first Easter with his new family.

Organizers are planning a huge event to celebrate the joy of 'ginger pride.'

This will create the world's largest virtual graveyard.

A new study reveals the majority of people you consider your friends may not feel the same way about you.

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $29 million in Recovery Act funding for weatherization training centers in 27 states.

New Hampshire, New Mexico, Montana, Minnesota, and Utah have completed 30% of their home weatherization projects, unlocking additional program funding.

Chanie Kirschner's house looks like one of those plastic-wrapped gifts. (Well, on the inside windows, anyway.)

Flash Drives for Freedom aims to take old USB sticks and smuggle them into North Korea loaded with Western media.

25-year-old wave runner Lindsey Russell undertook the 20-mile challenge to raise money for charity.

Hanan al-Hroub honored with $1 million prize for assisting children exposed to violence.

When disasters strike, we want to help the victims, even from thousands of miles away. Consider these giving strategies to make sure your donation counts.

Who needs calendars of yoga cats when you could have bearded mermen from the Newfoundland & Labrador Beard and Mustache Club on your walls?

A decade-long search for alien life called the Breakthrough LiBillionaire Yuri Milner pledges to fund a decade-long search for intelligent life.

Learn how Aflac and other companies are using the power of their brands to speak out on major public policy issues and social missions.

Making room in your budget for charitable giving will require some adjustments. But if a cause is important to you, it's worth a little extra saving.

This 12-year program in Finland inspires troubled kids to reach for their dreams.

A leopard cub left paralyzed by a car is pulling off a 'miraculous' recovery, thanks to the efforts of Wildlife SOS in Maharashtra, India.

Video: Learn about the Bryan Adams Foundation and what Bryan likes to do most when he's not playing music.

Video: Chuck Leavell, keyboardist for The Rolling Stones and cofounder of MNN, sits down with singer-songwriter Will Dailey to chat about Farm Aid and eating go

Turns out peeing on a jellyfish sting may do more harm than good, here's what to do if you get tased with a tentacle.

A small clinical trial suggests that suramin can reverse some autism symptoms with one dose, based on the theory of cell danger response.

Humans have always been searching for a cure for aging, but researchers claim to have developed a mathematical proof that shows it's impossible to avoid.

The official mascot for the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games is a moon bear. It may not sound like a big deal, but the species really needs this.

The bandage uses a thickening agent known as kappa-carrageenan, obtained from seaweed, to create injectable hydrogels.

It may be subliminal, but you transmit your fear to your dentist.

Epidiolex is the first marijuana-based drug to earn FDA approval.

Researchers in Brazil are experimenting with sterilized fish skin as bandages for burns.

Hailey Dawson has a 3-D printed hand and team spirit for days.

STIMO (STImulation Movement Overground) involves physical therapy and targeted electrical stimulation to help the brain regain control over paralyzed muscles.

The medicinal soil called "healing soil" has been found to contain powerful antibiotics that kill superbugs.

A device undergoing clinical trials in the U.K. may detect cancer by analyzing the compounds left by cells' biochemical reactions.

Breakthrough vaccine technique makes you immune to all forms of the flu virus.

Researchers find that more than 10 percent of patients may be taking aspirin unnecessarily, and the risks may outweigh the benefits.

Mercury, bloodletting, corpses, radioactive water and even heroin are just some of the treatments doctors used to prescribe patients.

These storied specimens have been shortlisted for Britain's Tree of the Year contest.

Coal country Sen. Robert Byrd is crowing about $4 billion he steered towards the false hype that is "clean coal" in the Senate version of the economic stimulus

The brothers behind 'The Big Lebowski' turn their filmmaking talents to the boondoggle that is "clean coal".

The Bush Administration buried a report showing a highly elevated risk of cancer for those living near coal ash. Why do we burn coal again?