Surprising fossils dug up in Africa are creating messy kinks in the iconic straight line of human evolution with its knuckle-dragging ape and briefcase-carrying man.

Astronauts from the US space shuttle Endeavour are examining a gouge in its heat shield, sustained during take-off from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday.

Hackers stole information from the U.S. Department of Transportation and several U.S. corporations by seducing employees with fake job-listings on ads and e-mail, a computer security firm said on Monday.

(May 3) - New images beamed back by a NASA spacecraft that flew by Jupiter earlier this year are giving scientists their most detailed glimpse yet of the gas giant and its moons.

A miner from Mexico's Chiapas state has made the find of a lifetime--a tiny tree frog preserved in amber that could be 25 million years old, a scientist recently announced. The block of amber, or fossilized tree resin, encasing the 0.4-inch...

THE TV show that has spooked millions with its footage of hauntings, ghosts and poltergeists is today exposed as a fake - by one of its own stars. Old story? May be, but nevertheless it should be kept new...

BETHESDA, Md., Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Fluctuations in hormones during women's menstrual cycles affect how their brains respond to rewards, the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., said. "These first pictures of sex hormones influencing

A mammoth cloud half the size of the contiguous United States and spotted on Saturn's moon Titan might be what's filling up lakes discovered there last year, scientists say. "This cloud system may be a key element in the global formation of organics an

POLIPOLI - With burned areas smoldering like "one big imu," state forestry workers Wednesday continued mopping up a fire that blackened hundreds of acres of forest around the Polipoli Springs State Recreational Area.

Nothing makes a protest come alive like a death or two. Jeff Swanagan knows. The president and executive director of the Georgia Aquarium, Swanagan stood by Jan. 2 when a veterinarian plunged a needle containing a fatal chemical into Gasper,