A Maryland appeals court has reversed a man's rape conviction four days after he was found beaten to death in a state prison cell...

Altering human heredity sounds sci-fi, but a major new ethics report is leaving open the possibility that one day scientists might try that to fight some serious genetic diseases...

Altering human heredity sounds sci-fi, but a major new ethics report is leaving open the possibility that one day scientists might try that to fight some serious genetic diseases...

A new U.S. Forest Service study finds that damaging insects can emerge from fallen trees and logs for several years after a major storm...

Researchers studying the massive die-off by starvation of a type of Pacific Ocean seabird say most evidence points to a climate event that warmed ocean waters...

A new study finds that the number of monarch butterflies wintering in Mexico has dropped by 27 percent this year...

Scientists may have figured out part of the reason why mosquitoes are drawn to people infected with malaria...

Dartmouth College has announced plans to offer compensation to homeowners impacted by groundwater contamination coming from a site where the Ivy League school once dumped animals used in science exper...

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has turned a $10 million commercial biotechnology plant laboratory in Middleton into the hub of a new crop research center...

The Texas Board of Education has moved closer to tweaking _ but still preserving _ high school science curriculum requirements that academics say cast doubt on the theory of evolution...