Mummies have apparently been around over a millennium earlier than the scientific community previously believed - meaning the developmental time line for early human civilizations may need to be reconsidered.
Fossil remains in Brazil have revealed a previously-unknown species of the flying, reptilian pterosaur, which lived 75 to 87 million years ago in the ancient Caiuá Desert.
It's high time for a mega earthquake in the South American country of Chile, scientists say, where tension's been mounting along a high-risk fault line since the late 1800s and recent shaking eased the stress only a little.
Facing what many wildlife experts thought was sure extinction in the early 1900s, due to hunting, trapping and poisoning, the North American wolverine recovered so well, it's been rejected as a threatened species.
The United States Forest Service has postponed plans to thin the trees around the Lake Tahoe area in the Sierra Nevada mountains - and thereby cut down the risk of wildfires - because the effort could further threaten a local and newly-designated endangered frog.
Stocking the International Space Station has just become a three-way affair, with the European Space Agency stopping its periodic automated resupply missions to focus on future manned flights.
Walking the streets of downtown Los Angeles, asking those passing by if they'd heard about the sudden death of entertainer Robin Williams, two phrases dominated people's reactions: "He was a great actor" and "a good human being."
Today is a time to discover your inner elephant - the third annual World Elephant Day, when people throughout the world honor the giant species and promote ways to protect them from the ongoing threats they face.
With Earth's atmosphere in the sights, the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, is positioned to begin its scientific mission, the first-ever spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Seismic events are common in Antarctica, where ice deformation causes hundreds of micro-earthquake strikes hourly, but the region's ice sheets vibrated differently after the 8.8-magnitude quake that hit Chile in 2010.
The attorneys general from 29 states are asking the United States Food and Drug Administration to craft even harsher regulations on e-cigarettes than the ones the agency proposed earlier this year.
A seismic research project planned along the coast of New Jersey's Long Beach Island that environmentalists and local fishermen criticized has been postponed until next summer due to mechanical failures.
One year after the United States Food and Drug Administration told food manufacturers they had no more than twelve months to ensure all of their "gluten-free" claims are valid. that the products they label as "gluten-free" really don't contain any wheat, rye, barley or any of their many derivatives, regulators can take action against food makers whose products are suspect.
A 10-year study of sleep patterns during space flight has revealed lack of adequate sleep - and use of sleeping pills - is extensive among astronauts in the United States space program.
The face of soccer in the United States will have to get a makeover, now that Landon Donovan, known as the greatest player ever to hail from America, is hanging up his cleats.
Before we Earthlings can send anything bigger than just tiny remote-control dune buggies to Mars, not to mention crews of human explorers, spacecraft builders will have to develop adequate energy storage systems.
Top medical students showing leadership and commitment in pursuing careers in primary care will have the chance to earn their medical degrees in an accelerated three years, through the University of California, Davis.
New research out of Canada asserts older adults really do appear to function better earlier in the day - a hugely important factor to consider when studying the cognitive abilities of seniors.
Sunlight - or, more to the point, the vitamin D contained in solar rays - may be the secret to staving off dementia and Alzheimer's disease, says a new study from the United Kingdom.
Scientists say a so-called dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico - where the water contains so little oxygen, if any, that bottom fish and other creatures can't survive - has grown about as big as the state of Connecticut.
When the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's new Orion spacecraft returns from its first test flight and plunges into the Pacific Ocean in December, its recovery crew should know what to do.
Long touted by environmentalists as a way to promote ecological diversity and health amid human development, wildlife corridors may in fact be inviting the destruction of natural spaces they were meant to save.
