Thousands of acres of illegal weed could become “catastrophic” for California’s wildlife, a new study warns.
A tsunami warning was lifted late Sunday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been given a mandate to slash rates of infections from antibiotic-resistant bacteria by 2020.
A Duke University researcher used the polio virus to help patients fight a deadly brain cancer.
The creature had antennae like shrimp and beetles, but with claws on the end.
Following the year-long mission on the International Space Station, the Russian space chief says the agency will collaborate will NASA on a new station.
The second-leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide joins other afflictions in being reduced by java consumption.
Every year, in March and April, thousands of young seals are killed by hunters in Canada for their fur.
As people from over 170 nations prepare to participate in Earth Hour 2015, here's everything you need to know about the annual event.
The mission will study the effects of prolonged exposure to a weightless environment, ahead of mooted manned missions to Mars.
Waist training has exploded in popularity in recent years thanks to celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Amber Rose. We caught up with Hourglass Angel CEO Ruben Soto to get the 411 on the craze.
Antibiotic resistance is considered “a national security priority” by the government.
The Ebola epidemic, which had spread rapidly since it began in West Africa last year, has killed over 10,000 people.
West Antarctica, which has witnessed a 70 percent increase in the rate of loss from ice shelves over the last decade, is the worst affected.
A study of 72 large cluster collisions shows how dark matter in clusters of galaxies behave when the clusters collide.
The rover, trudging on the surface of Mars since 2004, is now the only man-made object to complete a marathon on another celestial body.
NASA said it will select an asteroid for the mission in 2019, about a year before launching the unmanned spacecraft.
Neither of the students who contracted measles was fully immunized against the virus.
As a prelude to its full-fledged operations in May, the Large Hadron Collider was scheduled to begin circulating proton beams later this week.
Scientists have developed 30 new types of beans that may be able to endure a global temperature rise of up to 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit.
Seven people were killed and more were feared dead in Peru after a massive landslide buried parts of a town amid heavy rains, authorities said on Tuesday.
Only a certain subset of women stand to reduce their risk of ovarian cancer by having certain reproductive organs removed.
"Evidently we’re leaking some oil,” Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood said during the tanker's crash.
The city will close the last of its four major coal-fired power stations next year to curb horrific air pollution.
Nitrate, not carbon, could be the key to finding evidence of life on the red planet.
Researchers say the animals are much cheaper to train than laboratory testing devices.
Scientists believe that the 250-mile impact zone was created over 300 million years ago after an asteroid broke into two 6-mile-wide fragments.
Jupiter was believed to have acted like a wrecking ball to destroy inner planets in the early solar system, a new study suggests.
According to the study, human feces contain gold, silver and rare metals like palladium in concentrations large enough to be mined.
The study found today’s legal weed is much more potent than the pot of 30 years ago.