SCIENCE

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.

Australia had previously said that it would continue to aid vulnerable countries in the Pacific region, rather than donate to the fund.

Viking banquet halls, also called mead halls, were important political centers among ancient Scandinavian elites.

The leading edge of the lava flow is about 3.9 kilometers (2.4 miles) from Pahoa Village.

After spending $19 billion on 40 acquisitions since 2008, Valeant is regrouping after failing last month to acquire Botox-maker Allergan.

New observations by NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity suggest that ancient lake water helped shape the Martian landscape millions of years ago.

Scientists have found that the massive dunes on Titan, some of which are hundreds of feet high, were formed over tens of thousands of years.

Bizarre formations on the Martian surface have caught astronomers’ attention before.

A free app allows consumers to connect their devices to the World Community Grid, which helps fight diseases.

Archaeologists attributed the clothes’ notable preservation to a layer of slurry, or sealant, used to enclose the coffins.

There is currently no licensed vaccine for malaria, a deadly disease caused by a parasite carried in the saliva of female mosquitoes.

Sure, Merck's $9.5 billion Cubist Pharmaceuticals deal is a way to tackle a growing global threat — but it's also a way to make a ton of money.

Despite the earthquake’s magnitude, the director of Panama's National Civil Defense Service said there were no reports of damage.

The study, conducted by a London-based think tank, found that poorer nations had not benefited from contributions to existing climate funds.

Typhoon Hagupit, which has now been downgraded to a tropical storm, is slowly moving toward Manila, capital of the Philippines.

The proposed $780 million mission will drill 328 feet below the moon's surface to see if a human base can be set up in the future.

The death toll from typhoon Hagupit stood at four on Monday.

Liberia is the country hardest hit by the Ebola epidemic and has recorded more than 3,000 deaths.

Hagupit had weakened to a category 3 storm, two notches below "super typhoon", when it hit land.

Felix Baez, 43, was one of 256 Cuban doctors and nurses who went to West Africa to treat Ebola patients.

The typhoon has gained strength as it approaches eastern shores of central Philippines.

The deal would help expand its hold in the antibiotics sector and get access to Cubist's medicines, mostly used in hospitals.