SCIENCE

Supporters insist that government-regulated pot will drive customers to legal retailers and away from the black markets.

Increasing public and environmental concerns have led to moratoriums on fracking in some U.S. counties over the past decade.

The virus has already killed more than 350 healthcare workers and has infected 18,600 people in West Africa.

Many scientists reportedly say that the Arctic could become ice-free in summer by the end of the century.

The GSLV Mk-III rocket has been developed to make India fully independent in launching heavier communication satellites of the INSAT-4 class.

Forensic scientists are finding new ways to identify rape suspects based on their bacterial calling cards.

The source responsible for the "spike" in methane may be biological or an environmental interaction.

Medical students not only translated the documents but also added notes to explain results of the Ferguson youth's autopsy.

Despite a decline in drug use, the uptick in electronic cigarette consumption among youth worries doctors.

With international relations and the ruble in trouble, the Kremlin might hope a Russian space station boosts national pride.

A study reveals that current models fail to accurately capture how the Greenland ice sheet is changing and contributing to rising oceans.

Evidence of fire use at Tabun Cave came from the discovery of Stone Age flint tools, which were used for scraping and cutting meat.

This year is shaping up to be the warmest on the books -- again -- since record-keeping began 123 years ago.

After the West Coast was battered by heavy rains and strong winds last week, forecasts are predicting more of the same.

Three days after a heavy snowstorm, thousands of Vermont residents still have no power.

NASA got an early Christmas present: a budget increase as part of the U.S. House of Representatives' $1.1 trillion spending bill.

This weekend experts will X-ray the copper box, which is expected to contain letters and coins from the 1600s.

Thousands of people were evacuated in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendora over concerns of potential dangerous mudslides.

Almost all of the modern birds diversified in less than 10 million years, just after the dinosaurs went extinct, according to the study.

Environmentalists have raised concerns over damage to wildlife in the Sundarbans, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Bangladesh.

Dark matter, which is believed to make up at least 80 percent of the universe, helps galaxies stay intact.

California faces as much as 8 inches of rain and wind gusts of up to 50 mph through Friday.

At least 1.7 million people evacuated their homes at the height of the crisis on Tuesday and crowded into nearly 5,200 evacuation centers.

A new report, conducted over six years between 2007 and 2013, found nearly 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic garbage in the world's oceans.

A U.K. government-commissioned review warned that infections from drug-resistant microbes could cost the world nearly $100 trillion by 2050.

The latest discovery by the European Space Agency’s spacecraft has fueled the debate on the origin of our planet’s oceans.

A senior minister said that the protests by Greenpeace activists had damaged the 1,500-year-old Nazca Lines in southern Peru.

The tiny skull, no larger than the palm of a hand, was actually discovered in 1997 but wasn’t classified until much more recently.

The most common virus detected since October has been influenza A H3N2, the foremost strain in the three deadliest flu seasons since 2000.