Algae, like corn, soybeans, sugar cane, Jatropha, and other plants, use photosynthesis to convert solar energy into chemical energy algae are among the most photosynthetically efficient plants on earth.

The FBI announced Friday that an investigation into counterfeit network components made in China and sold to the U.S. government has recovered about 3,500 fake devices with a value of $3.5 million.The criminal probe, code-named Operation Cisco Raider

One of the biggest historical finds in the Marches has been made at Stretton Grandison. A complete wooden coffin - only the third to be found in the UK

A new network of smart buoys is adding some much needed protection for endangered Right Whales in Massachusetts Bay's shipping lanes which see some 1,500 ships pass through every year.

MANILA (AFP) - A rare rat species last seen over a century ago in the mountainous northern Philippines has been rediscovered by a team of American and Filipino biologists, a report said Sunday

Technicians in New Zealand are set to begin defrosting a rare colossal squid, following a day's postponement.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Human beings may have had a brush with extinction 70,000 years ago, an extensive genetic study suggests

Earth's population will be forced to colonise two planets within 50 years if natural resources continue to be exploited at the current rate, according to a report out this week.

Robert McCarthy, an anthropologist at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton has used new reconstructions of Neanderthal vocal tracts to simulate the voice. He says the ancient human's speech lacked the "quantal vowel" sounds that underlie modern speec

It's happened to many of us -- we get a new cell phone and we don't know what to do with the old one, so it goes into the junk drawer, the closet or the trash. But these phones might have a second life helping a local nonprofit organization.