Snowy owls wintering in parts of the U.S. and Canada may head back to the Arctic next spring wearing tiny transmitters that track their movements...

Poinsettia plants aren't really poisonous and snowflakes can contain bacteria: holiday myths and truths...

The California Academy of Sciences kicked off its annual Scuba Santa show Tuesday with about 100 children and adults who crowded around a coral reef exhibit to watch jolly St. Nick feed fish...

NIH bringing together musicians, music therapists and neuroscientists to tune into brain in search for music's healing power...

U.S. health officials approve gene therapy that can restore the sight of patients with a rare form of inherited blindness...

Conservationists have found a nest of the endangered Asian giant softshell turtle on a Mekong River sandbar in northeastern Cambodia, while 115 new species of various other animal and plant life have ...

A new species of bird has been named for a retired Harvard biologist known as "the father of biodiversity."...

Officials with the federal government say it's time to consider the possibility that endangered right whales could become extinct unless new steps are taken to protect them...

Scientists used artificial DNA to create a semi-synthetic strain of bacteria that produces novel proteins, a step toward designer drug development...

Britain says two major drugs companies plan new research facilities that will bring 1,750 jobs to Britain, part of plans to boost the country's sagging productivity after Brexit...