A calf who lost her two back hooves to frostbite is back frolicking in the fields of New Mexico - thanks to a pair of prosthetic limbs. The calf, named Meadow, was found a few months ago by rancher Nancy Dickenson and her stepdaughter, Martha. She had lo

A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will likely become a new ocean eventually, researchers now confirm

A recent publication by McAfee suggests that an estimated 62 trillion spam emails were sent worldwide in 2008. The paper argues that this volume of spam requires an energy use of 33 billion kilo-watt hours which is equivalent to:

The ability of dogs to tune in to needs of psychiatric patients, turn on lights for trauma victims afraid of the dark, remind owners to take medication and interrupt suicide attempts and self-mutilation, has lately attracted the attention of researchers.

spooky-looking fangs that have earned it the name Danionella dracula--and that's more than enough to qualify as a one of the spookiest new species announced in 2009.

Thanks to a Facebook page, hundreds of Internet users and two determined dog owners, a Rhodesian Ridgeback is safe at home. After eight days in Pennsylvania mountains, trapped in blistering cold, home is sweet for the seven-year-old. His name is Ralph, a

Field trials of a new cotton are verifying previous lab and greenhouse studies indicating the crop could become a source of protein for millions of malnourished people in the world The cotton was engineered so that the toxic gossypol is redu

An Ottawa company is developing computerized glasses that help people with severe visual impairments see -- as well as zoom in on and replay what they saw with the press of a button.

ScienceDaily (Sep. 10, 2009) -- CSIRO and the Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia (DAFWA) are collaborating to try to outwit one of southern Australia's worst agricultural weeds.

ScienceDaily (Sep. 11, 2009) -- Most natural rubber comes from rubber trees in Southeast Asia, but this source is now under threat from a fungus. Researchers have optimized the Russian dandelion to make it suitable for large-scale rubber production.