SCIENCE

The blind spot is unavoidable, but generally goes unnoticed because the right eye compensates for the left, and vice versa.

Birds ingest the poisonous material at such high rates because they often confuse the plastic floating on surface waters with food, researchers found.

President Obama will land in Alaska Monday and speak at a major conference on climate change. His trip is to last three days.

Most teenagers say parents play a big role in deciding whether or not to drink.

To address a big problem with birds getting stuck in aircraft engines during flight, monkeys are responding to a call of duty.

After completing a historic flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto last month, the New Horizons spacecraft is now headed to the dark and icy Kuiper Belt.

The helicopter was flying from Fort Drum in upstate New York toward New York City for an air show.

Gusting winds were blamed for massive power outages affecting as many as 450,000 customers.

People around the world remember the late British author and neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks not only for his scholarship but also for his spirit.

Erika, a tropical storm that killed 20 people on the Caribbean island of Dominica and at least one person in Haiti, fell apart on Saturday over eastern Cuba, theU.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Research indicates weather and air pollution are linked to heart attack survival rates.

Each participant will have a small room containing a sleeping cot and desk.

Experts warn that Floridians should still prepare for the possibility of impacts by Tropical Storm Erika, which left 20 people dead in the island nation of Dominica.

Scientists warn that more sustained wildfires associated with less moisture could convert forests of trees into forests of shrubs.

The tropical storm wreaked havoc on Puerto Rico Friday after killing at least 25 people on the island of Dominica.

Researchers said that the new method could be used to avoid the trial-and-error system by which medications are prescribed now.

Australia will fail to meet its greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets under current policy measures, according to a new analysis.

The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Agency said that 25 to 30 people were missing.

With an estimated $28 billion a year lost to inefficiency, experts say the U.S. scientific community needs to invest more heavily in verifying results.

Sea levels worldwide rose an average of nearly 3 inches (8 cm) since 1992, the result of warming waters and melting ice, a panel of NASA scientists said on Wednesday.

American astronauts drink recycled urine while aboard the International Space Station, but the Russian crews, who also inhabit the station, do not.

“Managing exposure risks in the Grand Canyon will be a challenge,” said Dr. David Walters, a research ecologist and lead author of the study.

Can the ALS Association turn the viral phenomenon into an annual fundraiser?

Scientists concluded that microbiome of the throat of people with schizophrenia differed from that found in healthy people.

During a lecture Tuesday, the famed British cosmologist put forward a new idea to resolve a long-standing conundrum -- the black hole "information paradox."

The report said that three out of the 11 cases of human plague reported since early April have been fatal.

Researchers found men who committed spontaneous domestic murders have distinct profiles from those who kill people they do not know.

People under age 19 account for about 236,000 cosmetic procedures in the United States each year.

Fear and biases come into play, affecting decision-making and risk-taking, when markets dip, observers say.