New research suggests that the genetic ancestry of people living outside Africa can be traced almost completely to a single exodus of humans from that continent long ago...

Florida prison officials tried to cover up the death of an ill inmate who was gassed at least three times in a confinement cell as he screamed for help, a federal civil rights lawsuit filed on behalf ...

Top officials for Monsanto and Bayer defended their proposed $66 billion merger before skeptical senators on Tuesday...

Scientists in Hawaii are using a mini-submarine to visit underwater volcanoes and unlock their many secrets...

In the Earth's oceans these days, the bigger a species is, the more prone it is to die off...

A private university in New York City has locked out hundreds of professors as part of a labor dispute...

A case of the Zika virus in Utah is now the only one in the continental U.S. that's still puzzling researchers on exactly how it spread, health officials said Tuesday...

U.S. officials have rejected a petition to give greater protections to the rabbit-like American pika, which researchers say is vanishing from mountainous areas of the West due to climate change...

It might be time to reconsider the five-second rule when thinking about eating food that has fallen on the floor...

A report by the U.S. Geological Survey has identified new threats facing an endangered bird that lives along rivers and streams in several states...