U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has taken the U.S. administration’s criticism of climate change doubters to a new level, labeling those who reject mainstream climate science as “insane.”…
Construction on what is expected to be the world’s largest telescope began Wednesday in Chile’s Atacama Desert. The massive telescope, dubbed the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), is slated to begin…
Frogs are disappearing at an unprecedented rate around the world due to a fungus that is spreading fast. About a third of the world's amphibian species are in danger of…
Vampire bats, which live in Latin America and feed at night on the blood of large animals like cows and deer, are surprisingly brainy and social creatures, engaging in certain…
Howler monkeys with lower calls have smaller testes, according to new research.…
The Nobel Prize committee in Stockholm, Sweden, has awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry to three scientists for their work on human DNA repair, which can be used in…
Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering drugs that led to the development of treatments for debilitating parasitic diseases, including malaria, river blindness and elephantiasis,…
Scientists diving near the Solomon Islands made an "illuminating discovery" recently: The first biofluorescent reptile ever recorded.…