A new study suggests there's a vast pool of magma beneath southwestern Washington State that supplies Mount St. Helens, Mount Rainier and Mount Adams

Impressed and alarmed by advances in artificial intelligence, computer scientists are debating whether there should be limits on research that might lead to loss of human control over computer-based systems that carry a growing share of society's workload

The goal is to enable power generation from low-temperature geothermal resources at an economical cost. In addition to being a clean energy source without any greenhouse gas emissions, geothermal is also a steady and dependable source of power.

An infant chimpanzee seized in Africa for the US Air Force in the 1950s, Marty was recruited into the military's air and space research program, paving the way for America's first manned spaceflight in 1961 and, ultimately, the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Baby screams. Onlookers glower. Mom gives in -- even when she's a monkey. Rhesus macaque mothers are about twice as likely to let a howling infant have its way during very public tantrums than during more private moments.

Creationists, who take their view of natural history straight from the book of Genesis, believe that scientific data can be interpreted to support their idea that God made the first human, Adam, in an essentially modern form 6,000 to 10,000 years ago.

Laboratory animal testing is cruel and inhumane thus should be a punishable felony crime like other animal cruelty. With the technological advances in science today, it is becoming harder and harder to justify such a primitive and barbaric tradition.

You may already know how food manufacture contributes to global warming--it's had its fair share of coverage lately, though the actual numbers have varied. In 2007, climate change experts pegged agriculture as producing 10 to 12 percent of global emissions

Jeroen van Beek, a security researcher at the University of Amsterdam, revealed his software that enables a user the ability to manipulate the data encoded on any RFID chip in any passport.

Fascinating article on Neanderthals - scientists are finding they actively sought and ate sea creatures as well as land prey.