Juvenile chimpanzees beat adult humans in two different short-term memory tests, according to a study conducted by researchers at Kyoto University in Japan and published in the journal Current Biology.

Union of Concerned Scientists annual cartoon contest. Please vote for your favorite of the dozen cartoon finalists.

Reviews of some of this year's strangest science books, like "When Science Goes Wrong," and "Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex." The part about the sloppy scientist and the DEA is priceless.

<p>Until recently, most scientists believed that the first humans came to the Americas 13,000 years ago. But new archaeological findings from a cave in Oregon are challenging that assumption. Lee Hochberg of Oregon Public Television reports </p>

Helicopter, costing $10,000 per hour, carried jet wings into Malibu hills

Information about which companies do--and which do not--conduct animal testing is easy to find online at sites like CaringConsumer.com

When a pair of tiger cubs are relocated to the Sariska Tiger Reserve in the coming days, wildlife experts won't leave them at the mercy of marauding poachers who wiped out big cats from the sanctuary in Rajasthan by 1993.

If the last 10 years have taught us anything, it's that the cable industry in the US is focused on openness, innovation, and customer satisfaction; but if we can't keep the government's knuckleheaded regulators out of our cable lines and off our Internet.

A mat of nanowires with the touch and feel of paper could be an important new tool in the cleanup of oil and other organic pollutants, scientists announced today.

Grave by mass grave, South Korea is unearthing the skeletons and buried truths of a cold-blooded slaughter from early in the Korean War, when this nation's U.S.-backed regime killed untold thousands of leftists and hapless peasants in a summer of terror