If a manned mission to Mars ever takes place, the human pilots will be outside Earth's protective magnetic field for several months, unprotected from solar radiation. Little research has been done on this sort of long-term exposure to low doses of radiati

Because of caring people and a caring company, a terminally ill little Green Forest girl was flown home Friday by air ambulance from M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, so she can spend her last days surrounded by the people who love her most.

CBS/AP) American families would be fined up to $3,800 for failing to buy health insurance under a plan that circulated in Congress on Tuesday as divisions among Democrats

A lost world populated by fanged frogs, grunting fish and tiny bear-like creatures has been discovered in a remote volcanic crater on the Pacific island of Papua New Guinea

Hundreds of people who were moved as children from their homes in wartime Britain gathered today to mark the 70th anniversary of the evacuation.Families were split up as three million children were given their rations and sent on trains

MONTICELLO, Ind. (WLFI) - Four dogs have been kept in a fenced kennel outside a foreclosed house in Monticello, Indiana for over seven months with no one to care for them.

WASHINGTON (AP) - An undercover video shot by an animal rights group at an Iowa egg hatchery shows workers discarding unwanted chicks by sending them alive into a grinder, and other chicks falling through a sorting machine to die on the factory floor.

Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 31 (PTI) Mobile towers are posing a threat to honey bees in Kerala withe electromagnetic radiation from mobile towers and cell phones having the potential to kill worker bees that go out to collect nectar from flowers, says a study

MINE RUN, Va. (WUSA) -- "We just are appalled." That's how Louis Pugh describes the news that his next door neighbor, 55-year-old Nancy Mackall, is now facing ten counts of animal cruelty

It seems pigeons may not be quite as bird-brained as first thought.Certainly these three clever creatures showed remarkable ingenuity by using teamwork to quench their thirst.