SCIENCE

According to a U.N.-backed study, land degradation, soil erosion and desertification might displace 50 million people within a decade.

The amount of snow blanketing the Sierra Nevada mountains in California has been severely depleted as a result of successive years of lower-than-expected precipitation.

The false widow spider has been named the most venomous spider in Britain.

Taking low-dose aspirin can help prevent heart attacks, stroke and colorectal cancer for adults 50 to 69 who are at a high risk for heart disease, a panel said.

New teaching standards in the Bible Belt state will not require students to believe in Darwin's theories or accept that climate is changing globally.

Many people on social media have begun blaming global warming for the poor health of some Arctic creatures.

After a previous failed mission, Microsoft and NASA aim to send the augmented reality headsets to the International Space Station.

The $500 million fund will invest in mature businesses as well as startups working on disruptive healthcare technology.

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet will become dangerously unstable if carbon emissions continue at the current levels for about 80 years, according to a study.

No major damage or injuries were immediately reported. Because of heavy rains in Japan, however, landslides could occur in some areas.

"It is interesting and extraordinarily futuristic. But it's a huge area of challenges from many, many standpoints," one medical expert says of head-transplant surgery.

The findings could have implications in fields ranging from education policy to brain repair.

"If an artist had painted this Pluto before our flyby, I probably would have called it over the top," New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern said in a statement released Thursday.

The capsule, designed to carry astronauts to the International Space Station, might just become the first privately built spacecraft to take humans to space.

A majority of Michigan voters back legalizing recreational marijuana, according to a recent poll.

Fifteen partial skeletons, composed of 1,550 distinct specimens, discovered in a hard-to-reach network of caves in South Africa, are challenging our current understanding of human evolution.

The Hinxton Group, an international group of scientists and policy experts, said the technology has tremendous value to basic research.

Researchers published their findings about the best types of work breaks to boost energy and focus.

The city is the first in the U.S. to require mandatory labeling of high-salt foods.

Virtual health services are gaining traction among private payers and state legislators who believe telehealth will save money and improve care.

SpaceX could lose its bragging rights as the company that makes the most American-made rocket engines.

To communicate with a space probe on the far side of the lunar surface, China will need to rely more on satellite technology.

Former Intel CEO Craig Barrett said he was "disappointed" by the move that ended the company's 17-year support of the contest.

The report found that developing new technologies that would reduce the effects of resource exploitation and climate change on the oceans was critical.

Scientists said that the insular cortex could be key to treating nicotine and other types of addiction.

Although nanosize particles have been trapped in a vacuum before, those particles were not optically active like diamonds.

What type of doctor should perform liposuction or breast augmentation? That simple question is at the heart of heated disagreement among medical specialties.

EGS8p7, an "unusually luminous" galaxy, is believed to have burst into existence approximately 13.2 billion years ago.

Earlier this year, more than 120,000 saiga antelopes dropped dead, wiping off nearly half of the species' global population.