SCIENCE

The Earth Commission assessed the planet’s health against eight thresholds needed to support life on Earth — and found seven already had been breached.

PrimateAI-3D was trained on the genetic blueprints of 233 primate species to help scientists sift through millions of variants and find ones that can cause harm.

Using animal biofuels in aviation has been touted as a solution for cutting emissions. But the practice may lead to other environmental problems, a study warns.

But panel members were emphatic that they had seen no evidence to attribute unidentified anomalous phenomena to extraterrestrial intelligence.

Dr. zur Hausen was awarded a Nobel Prize in 2008 for his work that later gave the foundations for the HPV vaccine.

Killer whales have seriously damaged boats about a dozen times this year off the coast of Spain and Portugal.

The swiftness of the tiger-sized predator's rise and fall underscores the extreme flux of animals during an extinction event.

The technology builds on research that showed it was possible to capture the energy in humidity. The latest discovery finds it's possible to do so with any material.

Experimental devices implanted in a paralyzed man's brain and spine communicate wirelessly and enhance his ability to walk and climb stairs, a paper in Nature found.

Popocatépetl, Mexico's second largest volcano, has been spewing ash onto an area accustomed to such rumblings, but authorities are telling them to be cautions.

Scientists say hundreds of “disruptive” interactions off the Iberian coast may have been triggered by a traumatic incident between a killer whale and a boat.

In Guatemala, scientists have found 417 cities dating to circa 1,000 B.C. and once connected by nearly 110 miles of “superhighways.”

For more than a century, historians believed William “Boss” Tweed, New York’s most powerful political figure at the time, was to blame.

To unravel how malaria-carrying mosquitoes sniff out their next juicy meal, scientists set up a screened-in outdoor laboratory in Zambia.

The big question is whether empowering wildlife officials to relocate endangered species like the Mexican gray wolf would help or hurt the environment.

A Danish husband and wife duo give kissing the scholarly treatment, pushing back the earliest records of the act by about 1,000 years

The 3D scan images by British mapping company Magellan reveal the Titanic in unprecedented clarity. The ship sank in 1912 and still grips the public imagination.

The boat's capsizing in Malawi’s Shire River also left 23 people missing. Hippos are popular animals, but they have also been described as among the world’s deadliest mammals.