SCIENCE

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday praised the pope's efforts to make climate change a moral issue for Catholics.

The fine print: only human antibiotics will be nixed, and only in chickens raised for meat.

During his virtual appearance at Sydney's Opera House, Stephen Hawking said that mankind would not survive another 1,000 years on Earth.

For a third night, many people across the country slept in the open, their homes either flattened or threatened by tremors that spread more fear among a traumatized population.

Rescue workers are having a hard time getting food and supplies to those affected by the temblor due, in part, to massive traffic jams.

About 300,000 people died in Haiti's 2010 disaster.

The street drug, also known as K2 or Green Giant, is a mixture of herbs and spices coated with a synthetic chemical similar to THC.

When clusters of galaxies collide, giant shockwaves bring their 'red and dead' galaxies back to life, but only for a few million years.

Just days before Saturday's devastating earthquake, a team of experts had warned of a "serious and growing earthquake risk" in Nepal.

Saturday's Mount Everest avalanche killed at least 17 people.

Here’s how to donate to the earthquake relief effort in Nepal.

A freak storm capsized dozens of sailboats in an annual race near Mobile, Alabama.

China has already pledged $2.2 million more than the United States to Nepal and is sending 62 rescue workers.

"Long-term exposure to air pollution showed harmful effects on the brain ... even those who are relatively healthy."

Hundreds of people may be trapped beneath a collapsed building, one horrific result of the powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked Kathmandu on Saturday.

It’s unclear exactly what the object was, but one researcher suspects it was a drone aircraft from a nearby town.

First synthesized in the 1930s, BMPEA is believed to aid in weight loss. It's derived from the Acacia rigidula plant.

The Calbuco volcano explosion left the surrounding area in ruins and covered with a thick layer of ash.

The nation's largest electric utility is facing fresh criticism from North Carolinians over its handling of toxic coal ash.

Coca-Cola does not plan to remove the aspartame in its diet drinks the way PepsiCo will do with Diet Pepsi.

Only 7 percent of parents said they would encourage their daughters to study engineering.

The genome sequence has brought researchers a step closer to cloning the mammals that perished about 4,000 years ago.

The newly revealed reservoir is believed to contain enough magma to fill the Grand Canyon 11 times over.

The twin eruptions have forced authorities in Chile and neighboring Argentina to cancel flights from nearby cities.

The image of a giant star cluster, called "Westerlund 2," marks the Hubble space telescope's twenty-fifth birthday.

"The show's purpose is not to talk about medicine."

Minnesota declared a state of emergency on Thursday over a fast-spreading strain of avian flu that has led to the extermination of more than 7.3 million birds in the country. It followed Wisconsin's action on Monday.

Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams recalled all of its products after a sample tested positive for listeria.

Over the past century, large-scale commercial fishing has depleted around 90 percent of global stocks.