Mars colonization seems a more realistic idea each time Elon Musk reveals details of his ambitious plans. The SpaceX boss...

Botanic gardens around the world help preserve 40 percent of threatened plant species and are home to a third of all known...

Compared to middle-aged men, middle-aged women are more likely to develop opioid addiction because they are prescribed twice...

Observations from the Hubble Space Telescope revealed that an asteroid discovered in 2006 has a twin and also shows comet-like...

A man who had been in a vegetative state for 15 years is finally reacting thanks to a treatment based on electrical nerve...

Lawmakers in Ohio are working on a bill that would ban abortion if prenatal diagnosis indicates Down syndrome. If approved,...

By examining recently discovered coprolite deposits, paleontologists found that herbivorous dinosaurs ate crustaceans and...

A new temblor centered in the state of Oaxaca shook Mexico on Saturday as an aftershock from the magnitude 8.1 earthquake...

The metrics of the human face can be used to predict sexual psychology, according to a report published in Archives of Sexual...

As CO2 emission levels increase, a geophysicist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology calculated “thresholds of...