Preserved tufts from mammoths that died between 50,000 and 12,000 years ago have allowed scientists to more efficiently create full genomes....

A striking seaweed, ribbon-like metal, and twisted geometry are just some of the winners of the 2007 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge....

Early Polynesians traveled thousands of miles - from Hawaii to Tahiti - for trade and exploration, suggests a new study of woodworking tools....

See one group's efforts to rescue brown bears kept in captivity in Romania and rehabilitate the animals in a mountain sanctuary....

NASA's DAWN spacecraft took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, this morning, beginning an eight-year mission to study a pair of asteroids beyond Mars....

Relocated and released Australian saltwater crocodiles use an unknown navigation method to trace their way back to native rivers, a new study says....

The 500-year-old skeletons bear evidence of extremely quick and puzzling deaths, the bodies having been found where they fell, without burial, an archaeologist said....

Two British scientists have come up with a controversial global warming solution: putting thousands of giant pipes in the ocean to spur the growth of algae....

Mining is booming in Australia to feed growing Asian demand. But the new mineral rush is straining relations with native groups, stressing a fragile environment, and making life for locals difficult....

A new rush to harvest iron, coal, and other minerals in Australia's Pilbara region is creating fortunes. But the unprecedented boom is also making life difficult for tourists, locals, and native groups....

A white-lipped snake and a fungus-like orchid are among the 11 new species found by WWF surveys in a remote tropical forest in central Vietnam....

Clues found in the prehistoric paddy fields show that Stone Age farmers used fire and even flood control to grow the staple crop....

Los Angeles's Getty Museum signed a deal on Tuesday with Italy to return 40 contested artifacts, including a "cult statue" of the Roman goddess Aphrodite....

New Zealand's Mount Ruapehu erupted without warning on Tuesday, covering a ski slope on the mountain's side with mud and injuring a resort worker....

Baboons casually open car doors and climb in, rob homes, and otherwise terrorize residents of South Africa's Cape Peninsula....

In what researchers have dubbed a "hotbed of deception," some male bat bugs have evolved females' fake genitals to prevent damage during sexual encounters....

Israel and Jordan have teamed up to construct an artificial reef in the Red Sea that is designed to draw divers away from the fragile natural reefs....

The silvery swimmer—so named because of its ratlike teeth—caught this summer in Puget Sound is the first albino fish ever seen by local scientists....

Astronomers working with the SOHO probe have found their first regularly returning comet, a small tail-less body that flies by the sun every four years....

The cost of curbing greenhouse gases emissions is tiny compared to the economic catastrophe of inaction, some experts argue. But others say the evidence isn't in....

A proposed facility in the Tana River Delta has ignited debate over whether the project is the best way to boost the economy while protecting biodiversity....

Salmonella, a common culprit of food poisoning, undergoes genetic changes in space that make it even more vicious, a new study says....

A Swedish gardener dug up a thousand-year-old hoard of silver coins collected by Norse seafarers from places as far as away as present-day Iraq and Uzbekistan....

Changes in temperature and rainfall in the Americas and worldwide may be rolling out the welcome mat for disease-spreading mosquitoes, experts say....