The focus on climate change during Tuesday night's Democratic debate marked a clear departure from the last two presidential election seasons.
Lamar Odom is believed to have been taking large amounts of 'herbal Viagra" prior to being found unconscious.
The operator of MIT's biomedical lab holds 1,100 patents and has helped launch some 30 companies. He talks to IBT about nurturing startups.
A private Chinese firm plans to mass produce the Ebola vaccine, which was developed by a team of Chinese military scientists.
Images captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal Jupiter's famous "Great Red Spot" in unprecedented detail, and the presence of a rare wave-like structure in the planet's northern hemisphere.
NASA and Israel have previously conducted several joint experiments in the field of climate and microgravity research.
El Niño is expected to grow even stronger in 2016.
The prisoners were never charged with a crime, but were still tortured using methods developed by two psychologists contracted by the CIA, the lawsuit alleges.
Rachel Kyte, the World Bank special envoy for climate change, said a $100 billion limit on climate aid to developing nations was "picked out of the air."
The "Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope," or FAST, will be the size of 30 football fields.
Melting sea ice due to warmer ocean temperatures, one of the effects of climate change, makes searching for oil and gas easier.
A new study found that premature births increased in areas with heavy fracking.
Hannah Kerner, executive director of the Space Frontier Foundation, describes the monumental challenges of commercial space exploration.
Sending humans to the red planet would involve crossing three "thresholds," the space agency said, in a new report. NASA aims to establish "Earth independent" habitats on Mars as early as the 2030s.
Scientists warned Thursday that climate change and weather patterns could cause another global coral bleaching with huge negative consequences.
Scientists estimated the hazy conditions that started last month would extend into November.
Food sustainability was important but did not belong in the guidelines, the administration said.
The global rise in meat consumption and pet ownership, especially among emerging nations, has major implications for pharmaceutical companies.
Our DNA is damaged each day by UV radiation and other substances. But a host of molecular systems continuously monitor and repair DNA, keeping our genetic material intact.
The first private company to land on the moon will win $20 million.
The High Court of Australia ruled that the BRCA1 gene -- which acts as a tumor suppressor and can increase risk of breast and ovarian cancer, if mutated -- is not a "patentable invention."
Experts say the Nobel prize for Dr. Tu Youyou breaks a psychological barrier, but systemic challenges remain.
Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald were awarded the Nobel Prize for experiments that demonstrated neutrino oscillations, a discovery that proved that the subatomic particles were not without mass.
A team of researchers has found that animal populations in the exclusion zone around the ill-fated power plant are now much higher than they were before the accident in 1986.
The new study found that 200 of the world's 6,355 frog species went extinct between the 1960s and 1990s.
If the global warming trend continues, the fires seen in recent years may become even more extensive and catastrophic.
Biotech company Spark Therapeutics plans to apply for FDA approval in 2016.
"The consequences in terms of improved human health and reduced suffering are immeasurable," the Nobel Committee said.
Some areas already inundated could get four additional inches of rain Monday.
The U.S. National Weather Service issued flash-flood warnings for areas in South Carolina, as President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency there.
