Sumatran orangutans, Miss Waldron's red colobuses, and Peruvian yellow-tailed woolly monkeys are among the world's most endangered primates, according to a new report....

A "flying" shark, a cheeky monkey, and a Pollock-esque elephant image are among the winners of the 2007 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Contest....

Nearly a third of all primates are endangered, says a report today. Poaching and habitat destruction are among the chief reasons....

Occasional incidents of cat mutiliation are usually isolated acts of cruelty, not cult violence, experts say. Warning: graphic image....

Discovery shuttle astronauts begin the difficult job of attaching an Italian-made module to the International Space Station. The project is expected to take ten days....

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will utilize "SpaceWire," a network interface that will enable the mission's components to work more efficiently with each other.

A medieval church on wheels, a Great Wall fashion show, and a Chinese moon mission are among the week's eye openers....

SPACE.com - HOUSTON – Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery will likely not have to perform a focused inspection of their spacecraft’s heat shield, NASA said Thursday.

In discussions about breast cancer, the male form of the disease is often overlooked -- so, men end up going longer without diagnosis or treatment

Scientists have identified a brain region that is essential for experiencing drug cravings.

As a way of meeting your maker, this one at least had the benefit of originality. On October 15 1972, a farmer in Trujillo, Venezuela, heard a sonic boom in the sky. The next day he discovered a cow lying dead in the field, its neck and shoulder pulverised. The bemused farmer found a boulder lying nearby, which he took away to use as a doorstep.

The DNA pioneer James Watson retired yesterday from his post as chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York state.

Biofuel plantations, logging and hunting are stealing habitats from our closest relatives, says report.

Two British researchers suggested policy makers abandon the Kyoto Protocol because the treaty has "failed" and is too limited to fix a complex problem.

AP - President Bush had a message Thursday for Southern Californians weary and frightened from five days of wildfires. "We're not going to forget you in Washington, D.C.," he declared in an eerie echo of what he once told Hurricane Katrina...

AP - Latin America and other poor regions of the world will bear the brunt of climate change, a top official from the organization that shared this year's Nobel Peace Prize said Thursday.

(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that accumulating evidence suggests a Bayer AG drug used to prevent excessive bleeding during heart bypass surgery increases the risk of death when compared with other drugs.

Microsoft is paying a premium to keep Facebook from the clutches of rival Google in a deal that puts an inflated 15 billion dollar price tag on the red-hot startup, analysts said Thursday.

An animal study released Thursday bolsters the notion that drug cravings can be "switched off" by shutting down a key part of the brain, a finding that could have implications for treating addicts.

(AP) -- Vonage Holdings Corp., the beleaguered provider of telephone service over Internet connections, said Thursday it has settled a patent lawsuit brought by Verizon Communications Inc. for a maximum of $120 million.

New research suggests that the sometimes eerie feeling experienced when recognizing someone, yet failing to remember how or why, reveals important insight into how memory is wired in the human brain.

Agricultural soil erosion is not a source of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, according to research in Science. Erosion actually leads to more carbon being removed from the atmosphere than is emitted, creating what can be described as a 'sink' of atmospheric carbon.

Canadians would welcome a vaccine against the human papillomavirus if it were introduced at no charge, a Quebec, Canada survey suggests. Research shows that 91 percent of young women (18-25 year-olds) would agree to vaccination, and that 89 percent of men and women would recommend it to their daughters or nieces.

What are the cancer drugs of tomorrow and how will they be developed? New targets, such as cell signaling receptors found on cancer tumors, provide tantalizing targets for engineered antibodies and small inhibitory molecules. New therapeutic technologies, such as virus-based therapy against cancers metastasized to nerve cells and a unique two-headed antibody that attaches killer T cells to tumor...