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New study restores famed fossil to "bird" branch
A raven-sized creature that lived about 150 million years ago is back on its perch, a new study says. Widely pegged as the earliest known bird, ...
US vs. European hurricane model: Which is better?
When forecasters from the National Weather Service track a hurricane, they use models from several different supercomputers located around the world ...
To stop MERS, longer quarantines may be necessary
A detailed look at two cases of a deadly new respiratory virus called MERS suggests people who have the disease should be isolated for at least 12 ...
EU greenhouse gas emissions lowest to date
The EU's environmental agency says the 27-nation bloc's greenhouse emissions in 2011 were the lowest since it began monitoring them in 1990.
Soyuz capsule docks with space station
A Soyuz capsule carrying an American, Russian and Italian successfully docked Wednesday with the International Space Station, where the new crew will ...
US environmentalist McKibben wins Sophie Prize
American environmentalist Bill McKibben has won the $100,000 Sophie Prize for being a mobilizing force in the fight against global warming. The award ...
Mom's obesity surgery may help break cycle in kids
Obese mothers tend to have kids who become obese. Now provocative research suggests weight-loss surgery may help break that unhealthy cycle in an ...
Earthquake hits Russia's Far East
A powerful earthquake on Friday hit Russia's Far East with tremors felt as far away as Moscow, about 7,000 kilometers (4,400 miles) west of the ...
WHO: Scientific red tape mars efforts vs. virus
International efforts to combat a new pneumonia-like virus that has now killed 22 people are being slowed by unclear rules and competition for the ...
Mais non! French universities may teach in English
In France, there's a brewing debate over whether to speak anglais in universite. The National Assembly on Wednesday was taking up an education reform ...
Measles surges in UK years after flawed research
More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of now discredited research that linked ...
Mice return from a month in space
A Russian capsule carrying mice, lizards and other small animals returned to Earth on Sunday after spending a month in space for what scientists said ...
Honeybees trained in Croatia to find land mines
Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on a fishing trip nearly a decade ...
Alaska volcano continues to erupt, with lava, ash
A remote Alaska volcano continues to erupt, spewing ash clouds and a lava fountain several hundred feet (more than 100 meters) into the air.
NASA: New pump resolves big space station leak
An impromptu spacewalk over the weekend seems to have fixed a big ammonia leak at the International Space Station, NASA said Thursday. The "gusher" ...
Space not the final frontier for viewing movies
The crew of the International Space Station is boldly going where no one has gone before — to see the new "Star Trek" film. The three astronauts were ...
Cyprus may get its moon rock after 40 years
Cyprus may finally get its piece of the moon. Some 40 years ago, the Mediterranean island nation was supposed to receive a 1.1 gram piece of moon rock ...
Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy: Q&A
Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie disclosed Tuesday that she had a preventive mastectomy after learning she had a gene mutation that significantly ...
Turkish womb transplant patient loses baby
A hospital says a Turkish woman who was the first to get pregnant with a transplanted donor womb has had her pregnancy terminated. Derya Sert was born ...
3-man space crew returns safely to Earth
A Soyuz space capsule with a three-man crew returning from a five-month mission to the International Space Station landed safely Tuesday on the ...
Hospital to probe East German medical trials
Berlin's renowned Charite hospital said Monday it plans to investigate allegations that patients in communist East Germany were used as unwitting ...
Astronaut exits space station with music video
In a high-flying, perfectly pitched first, an astronaut on the International Space Station is bowing out of orbit with a musical video: his own custom ...