Bird flu is circulating among birds on the Australian mainland. So, with the confirmed number of detections growing, you may ...

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You may have heard the phrase "we are made of star-stuff." This statement by the astronomer Carl Sagan refers to the fact ...

Clean-up efforts were underway Sunday as Hurricane Lala, which was downgraded to a tropical storm, rolled past Hawaii's Big ...

The beach shrinks every year in Ayetoro, in southern Nigeria, and what is left is peppered with the remains of homes ...

About one in 10 teenagers experiences social anxiety—persistent and disruptive worries about being judged by classmates and other peers. In a new study of adolescents with social anxiety, researchers ...

Humans love dogs, but petting them can leave some people sneezing and wheezing. About 15% of the world's population lives ...

South America was a frightening place during the Miocene. More than 10 million years ago, a vast lake covered much of the ...

Water-bombing aircraft and farmers' tractors joined forces Sunday to help firefighters tame Belgium's largest modern-day ...

Hurricane Lala was pulling away from Hawaii's Big Island early Sunday as heavy rain and strong winds struck the U.S. Pacific ...

Researchers at Rice University have found that gently squeezing a crystal of iron sulfide can change two of its unusual ...

The strongest glasses have an Achilles' heel that causes them to fail catastrophically when pushed past their limit. They do ...