Palaeontologists in Spain have discovered the remains of a strange dinosaur with a hump that they believe is the forerunner...

A U.S. federal judge denied the White House's request to drop his decision to temporarily block federal funding for embryonic...

Men who wish to attract women on the disco floor would be better advised to learn a few moves that...

One of the hardiest insects around, the cockroach, may hold the key to next-generation antibiotics, British scientists hope.

Does money make you happy? It's an age-old question, and two American researchers think they have the answer: it does...

A car-sized satellite that will plunge into the Sun's outer atmosphere "no later than 2018" for an up-close study of...

Australian researchers mourned the death of Cedric, a Tasmanian devil thought at first to be immune to a devastating cancer...

The fossil of a stocky new dinosaur with two sets of claws on its feet unearthed in Romania has given...

An international review panel called on the U.N. global climate change body to carry out several reforms after embarrassing errors...

Evidence at an ancient burial site in Israel shows that community feasts were probably a common occurrence among early humans,...