Researchers adapt an algal protein to reengineer sight into a broken visual circuit.

The giant defrosted this week has the world's biggest eyes, as well as light-emitting organs that may help render the squid invisible to predators, scientists say....

The birds may be gone from the wild within a decade after years of being poisoned by a common veterinary drug in dead livestock, a primary food source....

Rising sea temperatures may be causing the spread of oxygen-starved "deserts" in the world's tropical oceans, researchers say....

Engineers are building inexpensive, tabletop, touch-screen displays and sharing the instructions online.

An electrochemical alloy sent captive sandbar sharks dashing away from hooked bait, a find that could help reduce the millions of unwanted sharks snagged each year by longline fisheries....

Cheetahs could be extinct within 15 years. To help stem the tide, a new South African program brings a big cat into contact with the public....

An Australia company is testing what could be the undersea equivalent of a wind farm. Their devices would capture wave energy and convert it to electricity....

(AP) -- The NASA inspector general says the space agency is breaking the law by allowing conflicts of interest on a board overseeing the building of a new spaceship to return astronauts to the moon.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today rejected all of the patent claims for a common yellow bean that has been a familiar staple in Latin American diets for more than a century.

Today, at the Space Weather Workshop in Boulder, Colo., NASA-funded researchers released to the general public a new “4D” live model of Earth`s ionosphere. Without leaving home, anyone can fly through the dynamic layer of ionized gases that encircles Earth at the edge of space itself. All that`s required is a connection to the Internet. Airline flight controllers can use this tool to plan...

Reuters - Residents of Juneau, Alaska's capital city, have been forced to cut energy use since a series of avalanches wiped out transmission towers and electrical lines, cutting off all power from the area's hydroelectric system.

Individual atoms fall into one of 118 known categories: the elements. But what are they? John Emsley explains

A Russian chemist was the first to draw up a successful periodic table. But it wasn't until years later that its far-reaching predictions were proved correct. John Emsley explains

Our understanding of electromagnetism is key to the modern world we live in, but how much do we know about nature's other three forces

Despite being centuries old and established without experimental evidence, Newton's laws of motion and gravity are still fit for use today

Ancient Greek philosophers argued for the existence of atoms, but post-Einsteinian science has delved much deeper, says Robert Matthews

Proof of the so-called standard model of particle physics hangs on a huge experiment taking place this summer deep beneath the Swiss border. Robert Matthews reports

Researchers suggest leafy environment reduces rates of disease among four- to five-year olds

Cosmologist and astrophysicist Martin Rees on the big bang and beyond

Creating a theory of everything is the greatest intellectual challenge ever attempted by scientists. But with every breakthrough comes another hurdle

Cancer Research UK say it is 'too soon' to recommend using the drug on regular basis

Obituary: Swiss chemist who invented LSD, the mind-bending drug that 'turned on' the 60s

Inventor of LSD Albert Hofmann recorded what happened on that, now legendary, 'bicycle day'