WASHINGTON: The octopus already is an oddball of the ocean. Now biologists have rediscovered a species of that eight-arm sea creature that’s even stranger and...
WASHINGTON: In their annual, detailed physical of Earth's climate, U.S. scientists say the world is in increasingly hot and rising water.The National Oceanic...
WASHINGTON: A new United Nations report says the world still isn't close to preventing what leaders call a dangerous level of man-made warming. That's despite...
WASHINGTON: In what may be the birth of cheap, easy-to-make robots, researchers have created complex machines that transform themselves from little more than...
WASHINGTON: Global warming is rapidly turning America into a stormy and dangerous place, with rising seas and disasters upending lives from flood-stricken...
WASHINGTON: A quick candy bar may stave off more than hunger. It could prevent major fights between husbands and wives, at least if a new study that used...
WASHINGTON: Ten world-class soloists put costly Stradivarius violins and new, cheaper ones to a blind scientific test. The results may seem off-key to...
YOKOHAMA, Japan: Global warming is driving humanity toward a whole new level of many risks, a United Nations scientific panel says, warning that the wild...
WASHINGTON: Nature and man together cooked up the disaster in the Philippines.Geography, meteorology, poverty, shoddy construction, a booming population, and,...
WASHINGTON: Three simple numbers will prove whether sarin was used to gas Syrians last month: 99-125-81.Chemists this week around Europe are feeding samples...
WASHINGTON: You simply can't safely bomb a chemical weapon storehouse into oblivion, experts say. That's why they say the United States is probably targeting...
WASHINGTON: Imagine a raccoon with a teddy bear face that is so cute it's hard to resist, let alone overlook. But somehow science did - until now.Researchers...
WASHINGTON: Only a few species of mammals are monogamous, and now dueling scientific teams think they have figured out why they got that way. But their...
WASHINGTON: Two astronauts are preparing for a possible impromptu spacewalk Saturday to work on a coolant leak in the power system at the International Space...
WASHINGTON: In less than five years, a married couple could be on their way toward Mars in an audacious private mission that would slingshot them around the...
WASHINGTON: Astronauts have a down-to-Earth problem that could be even worse on a long trip to Mars: They cannot get enough sleep. And over time, the lack of...
WASHINGTON: A team of former NASA executives is launching a private venture to send people to the moon for a price that is definitely out of this world. For...
WASHINGTON: NASA is adrift without a coherent vision for where it should be going, an independent panel of U.S. space, science and engineering experts said in...
WASHINGTON: Forget political pundits, gut instincts, and psychics. The mightier-than-ever silicon chip seems to reveal the future.In just two weeks this fall,...
WASHINGTON: The weather monster that U.S. forecasters call "Frankenstorm" was looking more ominous by the hour for the East Coast on Friday.Meteorologists...
WASHINGTON: European astronomers say that just outside our solar system they’ve found a planet that’s the closest you can get to Earth in location...
The ice goes on seemingly forever in a white pancake-flat landscape, stretching farther than ever before. And yet in this confounding region of the world,...
WASHINGTON: NASA's future plans to explore Mars may end up using astronauts as space messengers. The new idea surfaced as a special team looking for a new...
WASHINGTON: Scientists have found a cosmic supermom. It is a galaxy that gives births to more stars in a day than ours does in a year. Astronomers used...
WASHINGTON: A prototype NASA lander crashed and burned in a test flight at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA spokeswoman Lisa Malone says it appears that...