Top officials for Monsanto and Bayer defended their proposed $66 billion merger before skeptical senators on Tuesday...

Scientists in Hawaii are using a mini-submarine to visit underwater volcanoes and unlock their many secrets...

The University of Florida says it has been awarded a U.S. grant of roughly $1.7 million to research the mosquito-borne Zika virus in Haiti...

In the Earth's oceans these days, the bigger a species is, the more prone it is to die off...

A private university in New York City has locked out hundreds of professors as part of a labor dispute...

A case of the Zika virus in Utah is now the only one in the continental U.S. that's still puzzling researchers on exactly how it spread, health officials said Tuesday...

U.S. officials have rejected a petition to give greater protections to the rabbit-like American pika, which researchers say is vanishing from mountainous areas of the West due to climate change...

It might be time to reconsider the five-second rule when thinking about eating food that has fallen on the floor...

A report by the U.S. Geological Survey has identified new threats facing an endangered bird that lives along rivers and streams in several states...

A new report outlines a scientific roadmap for the White House's cancer "moonshot" initiative _ urging research to harness the power of immune-based therapy, and to better tailor treatment by helping ...