New research has found that a Utah man who mysteriously contracted Zika from his infected father may have got it by touching his dad's tears or sweat with his bare hands...

A new study finds that evolution and genetics seems to have baked a certain level of murder into humans as a species, but civilization has tamed some of that 'inherited' savage beast in us...

The world's largest radio telescope began searching for signals from stars and galaxies and, perhaps, extraterrestrial life in a project demonstrating China's rising ambitions in space and its pursuit...

Baby lobsters might not be able to survive in the ocean's waters if they continue to warm at the expected rate...

The University of Connecticut has opened up 28,000-square feet of new laboratory space, which it is leasing to startup companies in the bioscience field...

An Egyptian scientist who put pants on rats to see how the pants affected their sex lives and a Swede who wrote a three-volume series about collecting hoverflies are among winners of the 26th annual I...

Federal authorities have made a formal recommendation to list the rusty patched bumble bee as an endangered species...

Scientists are exposing tiny Dungeness crab babies to acidic seawater in lab experiments to understand how changing ocean chemistry due to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide may affect one of the West ...

New research suggests that the genetic ancestry of people living outside Africa can be traced almost completely to a single exodus of humans from that continent long ago...

Florida prison officials tried to cover up the death of an ill inmate who was gassed at least three times in a confinement cell as he screamed for help, a federal civil rights lawsuit filed on behalf ...