Ecuador has declared an emergency in the Galapagos Islands, with a dire warning that a damaged cargo ship that ran aground last week threatens the archipelago's fragile ecosystem.
The hue of innovation is apparently still vivid at longtime technology powerhouse "Big Blue," otherwise known as IBM, which has just discovered a new class of polymers.
Along with its annual report on the country's bee population, the United States Department of Agriculture's newest effort to rally support for the winged pollinators has taken flight: BeeCam.
Particles from the sun not only warm our planet and occasionally knock out radio signals, but also cause electrical storms, according to new research from England.
Jupiter's trademark Great Red Spot apparently isn't so great anymore. The swirling anti-cyclonic storm, which is still much larger than the earth, is been measured by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at its smallest size ever recorded.
Who cares about humans reaching Mars in a few decades -- when the first energy drink ever is scheduled to land on the moon in 2015? Japan-based Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., an international health products company, has announced its plans to win the commercial beverage race to the lunar surface by sending a can of its powdered Pocari Sweat to the moon next year.
Led by baby boomers, those born in the United States between mid-1946 and mid-1964, the nation's 65-and-older population is projected to hit 83.7 million in the year 2050, almost double in size from the estimated 43.1 million older residents who crossed that threshold in 2011, say two reports released this week from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Organic Tommy Atkins mangoes sold under the Purity Organic brand between the dates of April 14, 2014 and May 2, 2014 have been recalled voluntarily by Pacific Organic Produce, based in San Francisco, Calif., due to possible contamination from Listeria monocytogenes.
There's a new image of the earth over the moon's stark surface, and while it may not be as important as the photo shot by Apollo Astronaut William Anders in 1968, it's still breathtaking.
Scientists studying the bones of a meat-eating dinosaur that lived about 150 million years ago have discovered the carnivorous creature had extraordinary powers to heal itself.
Scientists from Scotland have discovered a new species of carnivorous dinosaur that stalked the Earth more than 66 million years ago, sported a long nose and has been nicknamed "Pinocchio rex."
The numbers of teen pregnancy, births and abortions in the United States are all far lower than their rate peaks in the 1990s, says a new study released by the Guttmacher Institute, an international advocate for sexual and reproductive health and rights.
A new app for information on sexually transmitted diseases is changing its name after complaints the initial moniker, “Hula,” is culturally insensitive to Native Hawaiians, the app's owner has announced.
Asserting that climate change has "moved firmly into the present," a federal scientific panel has released a report cataloging what it says are climatic changes already impacting regions of the United States and noting how the impacts of some of those changes could be perceived as beneficial, though "many more are detrimental."
Three crew members who arrived at the International Space Station six months ago -- before political tensions escalated between the United States and Russia over the latter's military incursion into Ukraine -- are coming home today.
Hundreds of years before the people of ancient Peru etched the giant designs known as Nasca lines in the country's high desert, another group of expansive markings along the coast were crafted from the region --- not to send messages to gods or alien spacecraft, but advertise community get-togethers.
There's a new jumping spider on the scene, one that can travel up to two meters -- or over three feet -- per second, with unique flic-flac-flac moves similar to those in a gymnastic floor exercise
Walking, even if it's on a treadmill, in front of a blank, boring wall, can at least double a person's creative output, when compared to sitting, remaining stationary, asserts new research from Stanford University.
Parents in search of better-behaved children at the dinner table may need to simply do one thing: cut up their food. That's the advice of researchers from Cornell University, who observed 12 elementary-level school children during a 4-H summer camp and found when the children, aged 6-10 years, ate foods they had to bite with their front teeth -- such as drumsticks, whole apples, or corn on the cob -- they seemed more agitated than when the same foods were cut up.
A U-2 spy plane, used since the days of the Cold War, apparently triggered a computer system malfunction at a California air traffic control center that led to flight delays April 30 at several airports in the southwestern region of the country and kept planes headed into the area from other parts of the country grounded.
Halley's Comet won't be visible by naked land-bound eyes again until 2061, but the meteors caused annually when Earth passes through its debris trail again flare across the night sky, May 5-6.
At a time when Eastern European politics has strained the relationship between the United States' and Russia's space programs, the only American woman to serve aboard the Russian Space Station Mir now has a spot in the U.S. Space Hall of Fame.
Calling climate change the "defining issue of our time," United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on the world's international community to develop concrete ways to stem greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen the resistance of the planet.
About 900,000 Americans die prematurely (before age 80) each year and 20 to 40 percent of those deaths were preventable, says new research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
