SCIENCE

A new risk assessment report, commissioned by the British foreign office, paints a grim picture of the planet.

An ultrasound treatment can reduce the chance of infections without side effects, researchers said.

The submerged cluster of calderas is over 12 miles long and about 4 miles wide.

Glaciers in the highly unstable region of West Antarctica have been losing as much water as the weight of Mount Everest every two years.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the country's post-2020 emissions target will not be announced before August.

After a journey of over nine years, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is finally close enough to discern surface features on the cold, dwarf planet.

The findings of the study challenge the common belief that people with the disorder are more likely to smoke.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated from coastal cities, amid fears Typhoon Chan-hom could be the worst storm to hit the area since 1949.

If giant panda Mei Xiang is pregnant, it would her third cub.

Scientists have found a way to separate the medical benefits of cannabis from its negative effects.

Despite having their habitats squeezed by climate change, the bees refuse to go further north as other insect species like butterflies have done, the scientists found.

The size of a black hole traditionally coincides with its host galaxy.

The launch, scheduled to take place Friday, would be the Indian Space Research Organization's (ISRO) heaviest commercial mission.

Heart problems and defects in the formation of brain and skull were linked to antidepressants such as Prozac and Paxil.

Despite being shaped by the same cosmic collision billions of years ago, Pluto and Charon are more like strangers than siblings, astronomers say.

A new study estimates that if global temperatures rise by 3.6 degrees, sea levels could rise by up to 20 feet, threatening millions of lives worldwide.

The green goo is caused by an abundance of phosphorus in the lake’s shallow waters, allowing cyanobacteria to thrive.

Eating fruits and vegetables protects against heart disease, stroke and some cancers.

The DARPA arm made headlines earlier this year when a U.S. soldier used it to climb a rock wall.

The test comes after NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory deployed the drone known as Bruie beneath a frozen lake in Alaska.

The system, named 1SWASP J093010.78+533859.5, is located just 250 light-years from Earth in the Ursa Major constellation.

Over 145,000 deaths in the U.S. in 2010 could have been averted if adults who dropped out of high school had a high school degree, according to a new study.

The findings are based on over 200 bones that were collected from a bone bed in southern Alberta.

New Horizons provides a new image of Pluto, which shows a large heart-shaped bright area on the planet's surface.

Documents, including internal memos, show that the oil giant knew of the link between fossil fuels and climate change as far back as 1981.

Typhoons Linfa and Chan-Hom are expected to make landfall in the next two to three days.

Gone are the days when most American politicians said marijuana was a gateway drug, or that it should never be legalized.

The Falcon 9 rocket exploded less than 3 minutes after blasting off from Cape Canaveral.

A team of researchers found that an ideally modeled brain with an optimal network structure was almost exactly the same as a real human brain.