Researchers from four institutions in three western states have concluded Asian air pollution is impacting weather patterns over the Pacific ocean and United States.
A wayward California sea lion pup is recovering in a marine mammal treatment center in Sausalito, Calif., after being found in the state's central valley, more than 100 miles from the ocean and about a mile from the nearest river.
The fossilized head of a shark-like species that lived an estimated 325 million years ago and was recently unearthed in Arkansas reveals the physical characteristics of modern sharks have undergone many more evolutionary changes than previously thought.
One of the most storied launch pads in America's space exploration past is now managed by one of the few private transport operations leading the space industry into the future.
Deep on the ocean floor, beneath the waters off the Pacific Northwest all the way south to Baja California, they lurk: four new species of meat-eating sea sponges, awaiting their next victims
A new mobile app just released by developers at the University of Michigan promises to ease the effects of jet-lag significantly, believed to be the first to take a numbers-based approach to "entrainment," the scientific term for synchronizing circadian rhythms --- biological functions determined by the 24-hour clock.
Saturn looks to have a new natural satellite, and her name is Peggy. Saturn looks to have a new natural satellite, and her name is Peggy. Evidence of the relatively small, icy object, estimated to be no more than half a mile in diameter, was spotted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's robot spacecraft Cassini, which has been orbiting the ringed gas giant since 2004.
Private space transportation outfit Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or, SpaceX, canceled its planned cargo run to the International Space Station today with about an hour left until its scheduled 4:58 p.m. EDT lift-off, after a helium leak was discovered in the rocket.
The international assault on the invasive lionfish, which has a ravenous appetite but no natural enemies and has been creating ecological and economic havoc along the East Coast and Caribbean, has apparently taken a big bite out of the spiny creature's numbers, say reports out of Jamaica.
Fossils taken from the world famous La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles have revealed the evolution of predators during the last Ice Age was driven by climate change.
People who eat at restaurants are twice as likely to contract food poisoning as are those who prepare their food at home, according to the nonprofit food safety watchdog Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Outer space obviously sells; nearly 300 space enthusiasts and collectors from 17 different countries bid by telephone or in person in New York April 8, spending upwards of $1 million in an auction of mainly American and Russian items left over from the "Space Race" era.
Your mother was right: when you cough or sneeze, your germs carry --- but farther than likely you or she ever imagined.A unique study by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or, MIT, shows when people cough and sneeze, they expel gas clouds that keep their potentially infectious droplets gliding through the air a lot longer, and for much greater distances than previously thought.
The human traits of procrastination and impulsivity are genetically linked and stem from similar evolutionary origins, according to a new study from the University of Colorado Boulder that examined identical twins.
People usually aren't able get up-close to, let alone spot, wild oarfish, the elusive, serpent-like, ray-finned ocean creatures that mainly stay in deep open waters. That's why it was so extraordinary when a group of wildlife enthusiasts, on a kayak trip along the Baja coast in Mexico organized by the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, happened upon two oarfish swimming along the shallows of a local beach.
An international research team has discovered move evidence the inner workings of ancient Earth's creatures were actually quite similar to those of humans.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is releasing to the public later this week computer codes to many of the types of applications the space agency used to send explorers to the moon and robotic probes to the far reaches of our solar system
New research from the University of California, Los Angeles suggests lifestyles --- specifically eating habits --- make people overweight and then leave them tired and sedentary, not the other way around.
Daily consumption of legumes, such as beans, peas and lentils, can significantly lower the risk of heart disease, reports a bi-national team of scientists from Canada and the United States.
An image that was taken last week by one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's two robotic roving laboratories currently exploring the Martian landscape appears to show an artificial light radiating outward from the planet's surface.
One of the most complete set of Tyrannosaurus rex bones in the world is set to ride the biggest shipper in the world to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
