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The 2010 prognosis for honey bees doesn't look good, according to Jeff Pettis, Research Leader at the USDA Bee Lab. Although hard data won't be available until April, preliminary surveys of our nation's beekeepers suggest that at least as many ...

Wild horses appear to possess an instinctual response to Native American drumming, as evidenced by a recent event at Red Horse Nation.

If you get a message in Facebook saying that your password needs to be reset, don't do it. Virus-tainted spam targeting 400 million Facebook has run amok. You could be at risk for giving out personal information that could put ...

A U.N. wildlife meeting has rejected two proposals that would stop poaching and trade of these endangered species.

Anne Frank was a gifted storyteller, even while enduring the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp, according to a new book.

Ahoy there! NASA astronaut Jeff Williams and Russia's Maxim Suraev landed in blustery Kazakhstan this morning, wrapping up a six-month stay aboard the International Space Station. Winds were so high, the crew's Soyuz capsule tipped over on its side at ...

In a laboratory buried underground and measuring several football fields in length, scientists are conducting experiments that could change the future of medicine.

If male Gulf pipefish like the mother of their brood, they develop her eggs. If not, the dads abort.

The mountain-dwelling pika, which many predicted might be one of climate change's first casualties, is thriving in the Sierra Nevada.

On the very edge of our observable universe live two quasars. Both contain active and growing primordial black holes, but where's all the dust?

A structure, possibly another universe beyond the horizon of our own, appears to be pulling at our world.

With a degree in chemical engineering, Capra anticipated one of the most important issues of our generation -- global warming -- by several decades.

Recently I got a glimpse at energy-related research in the works at MIT during an afternoon at the MIT Energy Initiative, an interdisciplinary program pursuing sustainable energy solutions. Among the mind-blowing projects is a liquid metal battery for grid-scale energy ...

Religion and science are of similar minds when it comes to dealing with natural disasters.

According to an AP story, the Vatican has begun an investigation into miracles and appearances of the Virgin Mary at the famous Medjugorje shrine in Bosnia. “An international commission of inquiry headed by Italian Cardinal Camillo Ruini — a top ...

The exoplanet could be the Rosetta Stone in the search for worlds beyond our own.

How to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in the United States: Cover yourself in green (bonus points for shamrocks), put a smiling leprechaun cut-out on your front door, head to your local "Irish Pub" after work, get rowdy and wasted. How ...

It giggles and then it cries. It coos and then it wails. Ah yes. The wild swing of emotions from babies is now replicated in robots. Engineering students from Tsukuba University north of Tokyo in Japan have given birth to ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has picked out the final resting place of the Soviet Lunokhod 2 rover after a Canadian researcher followed the 37 year old tire tracks captured in recently released moon photos.

Lance Mackey is the first musher to win the 1,000-mile race four years in a row.