Alaska's escalating war on science should be a grave concern to us all. On climate change, endangered species, predator control, and environmental impacts of industrial development, Alaska now has arguably the most anti-science government anywhere in

Scientists in the South West have been studying the whiskers and claws of wild mink to try to learn more about the lifestyles of the once-captive animals.

SCIENTISTS have gained a glimpse into how the koala, one of the nation's most loved creatures, may have acted tens of millions of years ago.

Thousands of years ago in northwestern North America, large animal species, among them the woolly mammoth and the horse, became extinct. Among the proposed explanations for this is one known as the blitzkrieg hypothesis -- that humans entering the region

HAWTHORNE, California, December 22, 2009 (AFP) - Frederic Scheer is biding his time, convinced that by 2013 the price of oil will be so high that his bio-plastics, made from vegetables and plants, will be highly marketable.

Video depicts deepest volcano ever seen

A District man who was incarcerated for 28 years in the rape and murder of a Georgetown University student in Rock Creek Park was ordered released Tuesday

Among all of the buzzwords about "light-speed DNS" and "real time," there have been few events that really drive home the point of just how fast technology and its users are. The Tiger Woods affair was a hole-in-one for the Internet's quick turnaround

Billionaire Richard Branson's latest creation met the press today in the California desert. Branson and legendary designer Burt Rutan, whose SpaceShipOne won the $10 million Ansari X-prize for reaching suborbital space five years ago, unveiled SpaceShip..

In a new research, scientists have revealed how mercury pollution is affecting Arctic animals like the polar bear. The research, led by biogeochemists Travis Horton of the University of Canterbury and Joel Blum of the University of Michigan, lays the