SCIENCE

The situation is a sign of humans’ continued overuse of fossil fuels and the rise of global warming, researchers say.

A hole in the body of water is actually a collapsed lava tube, a relatively common geological feature in the region.

After a gap of over two years, proton collisions resumed at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.

The galaxy “EGS-zs8-1” is still forming stars at a rapid pace, about 80 times faster than the Milky Way galaxy.

The federal Office of Management and Budget has granted U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack the authority to transfer an additional $330 million in funds for the agency's handling of the avian influenza outbreak, USDA agency sources told Reuters, an exclusive report said.

The judge who sentenced Thomas Miguel Guerra said it was a “travesty” that the defendant faced only a misdemeanor charge.

Stretchy nerves in mouth serve as an essential component of the feeding mechanism of giant whales, a new study finds.

Diabetics, who are overweight, but not obese, are likely to live longer than their normal and underweight counterparts.

Climate experts have long proposed limiting temperatures to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

About one in 12 people in the U.S. is afflicted by asthma, a chronic disease that affects sufferers' breathing and can be deadly.

One in 30 youth football players, ages 5 to 14, will suffer at least one concussion per football season, according to new research.

The pulsar, PSR J1930-1852, discovered by a team of high-school students in 2012, is part of an extremely rare binary system.

"When I would be concerned is a week goes by and there's no quake in California."

An international team of scientists is calling for manufacturers to stop using the chemicals while safer alternatives are explored.

Congressional critics say the Earth-studies programs run by NASA have contributed a great deal to scientists’ understanding of climate change.

Twitter users took to the social media site immediately after the quake to say they felt the shaking.

The Crane Independent School District in Texas mailed a letter to high-school parents, notifying them of the escalating problem with the sexually transmitted disease.

Communities from Cleveland to southeastern Michigan felt the effects of the quake.

Boxer Floyd Mayweather took up a frigid treatment known as cryotherapy to prepare for Saturday night's $300 million match-up against Manny Pacquiao.

Voyages into deep space can expose astronauts to cosmic radiation, which can cause cognitive impairments.

With Florida's chances of expanding Medicaid all but gone, the blow to low-income residents could be twice as bad.

An estimated 25 million families worldwide depend on coffee, the world’s most valuable tropical export.

The U.S. government has designated nearly every day of the year to raising some form of health awareness, but it's not making people healthier.

"We're not asking for any of these products to come off the market at this time," an FDA official says. "We're just asking for additional data."

Scientists say the new research helps climatologists solve the puzzle of where climate events happened first.

Inhospitable dead zones, found for the first time far from any shore, could be an effect of rising ocean temperatures.

The annual threat typically peaks in the summer and into the early fall, with the most intense blazes occurring in late September and October.

But what scientists are less sure of is whether those extra decades of life will also result in a higher quality of life.

The latest photos, taken by New Horizons' telescopic imager, show bright and dark features on the dwarf planet's surface.