Documents, previously secret, surfaced earlier this year, revealing pharmaceutical giant Merck maintained a "hit list" of doctors to be "neutralised" for speaking out against Vioxx. At least eight clinical investigators were threatened or intimidated.

Astronomers are finding planets by the dozen. A team of European astronomers announced Monday morning that they had found 32 new "exoplanets" orbiting distant stars

Haze in the early Earth atmosphere could have played a crucial role in the origin of life.

When an amateur photographer went out to snap an old Dutch sugar factory on Tuesday, he captured a rare treat: a huge exploding fireball in the sky. Hundreds of people in the Netherlands and Germany reported seeing the fireball streak across the sky -

The dinosaurs' demise may have been due to an asteroid double-whammy--two giant space rocks that struck near Mexico and India a few hundred thousand years apart, scientists say. New theory says the dinosaurs were actually finished off by another asteroid -

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The Anthropocene has yet to be accepted as a geological time period, but if it is, it may turn out to be the shortest - and the last!

Somewhere along an industrial stretch of river pocked with rotting piers and towering salt piles north of Boston lies the answer to one of the great riddles of the Revolutionary war.

Solar observers are keeping a close eye on the sun as it experiences its quietest period in more than a century.

Researchers point to lake-borne poisonous gases as the prime murder weapon leading to 'greatest apocalypse'; the end-permian mass extinction of 250 million years ago.