Spanish authorities said Saturday they are investigating five laboratories in an effort to find the source of an African ...

Disaster-hit Sri Lanka has unveiled a major compensation package to rebuild homes damaged by a deadly cyclone, even as the ...

If you ever find yourself on Macquarie Island—a narrow, wind-lashed ridge halfway between Tasmania and Antarctica—the first ...

Americans use the f-word more frequently on social media than Australians or Britons, but Australians are more creative in ...

This week, JPL scientists reported that glaciers speed up and slow down at predictable intervals. CERN's ATLAS experiment ...

Interactions among viruses can help them succeed inside their hosts or impart vulnerabilities that make them easier to treat.

The story lines of every episode of legal TV dramas, from Law & Order to Perry Mason, revolve around five key narrative ...

More and more phones, televisions, smart speakers, and cars are embedded with automated speech-recognition technologies that ...

Sick young ants release a smell to tell worker ants to destroy them to protect the colony from infection, scientists said Tuesday, adding that queens do not seem to commit this act of self-sacrifice.

The Amazon rainforest has yielded yet another new species, according to a recent study published in Zootaxa. Discovered in ...

Only 7% of Europe's original area of peatlands remain. What's more: their climate boundaries are shifting. An international ...