Fossils of the largest known bird, an extinct flightless predator with a skull the size of a horse's and a menacing beak like an eagle's, have been discovered...
Poor people die sooner when living in higher-income neighborhoods than in poorer ones, a new report concludes. Researchers analyzed 17 years' worth of data on...
In the first comprehensive global study of sexual behavior, British researchers found that people aren't losing their virginity at ever younger ages, married...
Before the 2004 election, a friend who is a solid Republican and Protestant mustered what he knew was a wan case for re electing George W. Bush, considering...
Have sex and die: that's the lot of a shrew-like marsupial that can't afford to waste time picking out the ideal mate but produces great offspring all the same...
Caves in southeastern Italy have yielded evidence of the earliest human settlement in Europe, fueling a long-running debate over when the European continent...
People who claim to have seen God are delusional and Thomas Aquinas's logic was flawed, our correspondent argues in an extract from his bestselling book ...
Two weeks ago, I was rushed by ambulance to a hospital where it was determined by c-t scan that I had a "dissection of the aorta"—the lining of the main...
Societies should begin planning how to improve quality of life for citizens who develop dementia and mental impairment as they age, as increasing life...
Genetic Variability and the Formation of Social Norms: The Case of European Alcohol Consumption Eric Nævdal and Jason F. Shogren Abstract: Alcohol consumption...
"Openly "gay" tennis pro Martina Navratilova has joined the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in condemning researchers at two Oregon universities...
Japanese researchers said Sunday that a bottlenose dolphin captured last month has an extra set of fins that could be the remains of hind legs, a discovery...
Genetic modification will remain a vital tool in the global production of crops, says Tony Combes http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1940999,00.html...
What a twins convention in the Midwest tells us about the future of humanity. http://www.discover.com/issues/nov-06/departments/blinded-twins-clones/...
Thanks to advances in DNA technology, scientists can now reconstruct new copies of old viruses. Last year United States government scientists reconstructed the...