Modern conservation could head off global soil crisis

The Commerce Department launches a miniversion of the much-reviled Technology Administration

Report blames agency for not adequately protecting patients

Pictures of burned villages and military camps conflict with government accounts

Variations in two genes help explain why people who take the drugs become more suicidal

A gigantic but fleeting one-time radio source blares from deep space

Meerkats sprint toward danger and learn in the process

Nightly migration of larvae may have helped invasive fish conquer the Great Lakes

Minute RNAs unleash breast cancer cells

Kelp forests may exist throughout the tropics, new study finds

Taking bacteria on a shuttle ride reveals some of their best-kept secrets

Taking bacteria on a shuttle ride reveals some of their best-kept secrets

Astronomers discover a stellar hatchery far outside a galaxy's main body

Increased plant growth might cancel out effects of Arctic melting

Protein that protects stressed-out cells also aids tumors

Intense pressures in the deep Earth affect materials at the subatomic level

Protein involved in necrosis could have applications for human disease

What does the evolution of human speech have to do with bat sonar?

Advisory group recommends U.K. police maintain genetic profiles of only convicted criminals

Alan Trounson to become president of California stem cell agency

Experiments suggest that the toxic pollutant rapidly disappears from aquatic ecosystems

Social insects suffocate their enemies by swarming them

NIH committee reviews case of woman who died after arthritis clinical trial

Finding poses tough questions for species conservation