The endangered Japanese summer delicacy of roasted eel, braised with a tangy sauce and sprinkled with prickly mountain pepper, may get a new lease on life with commercial farming...

Scientists in Germany have identified a new type of pox virus that's sickening young red squirrels in Berlin...

General Electric says it will close its manufacturing facility in Rochester next year and move the work to China...

A marine mammal used in groundbreaking research on whale hearing and military sonar is again drawing attention - this time with her latest move to a Hawaii amusement park....

Northwestern University officials say a professor accused in the stabbing death of a 26-year-old Chicago man has been fired...

After a cross-country manhunt, a former Northwestern University professor and University of Oxford employee are in custody for the brutal stabbing death of a 26-year-old Chicago hair stylist...

A fossil found in northeastern Nevada shows a newly discovered fish species that scientists believe looked, and ate, like a shark...

The mother of a Chicago man who was fatally stabbed in Chicago is asking for privacy...

Canadian officials say three types of potatoes genetically engineered by an Idaho company to resist the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine are safe for the environment and safe to eat...

New fossils help scientists discover a prehistoric sea worm with 50 spines on its faceless head...