A massage therapist in India claims she can relieve the stress of overworked elephants through massage.

The Kashmir city of Srinagar is using strychnine to poison the dogs. It's part of an anti-rabies effort that local animal rights activists oppose.

A new computer program can predict what a person is seeing based on brain activity, a study reveals—opening the door for useful but controversial "brain scanning" technology.

The Japanese government claims whalers were injured by activists hurling butyric acid produced by rotting butter. Video of the alleged incident hasn't been independently authenticated.

A big quake rocks Britain, the New York Philharmonic entertains North Korea, a galaxy is ablaze with new stars, and more.

A three-year-old green sea turtle in Texas is likely the first sea turtle to be fitted with a prosthetic flipper.

Canals feeding water from the Yellow River into the capital city are precursors to China's "master plan" to create human-carved rivers that will bring water into the arid north, officials say.

The futuristic entrance to the seed bank leads deep into a frozen mountain, where millions of seeds should be safe from war, warming, and other disasters.

Scientists can determine where you've lived by studying your hair, which holds the unique chemical signature of the water you've been drinking, a new study has found.

Set into a mountain on a remote Arctic island, the vault is designed to protect seeds from all over the world from all kinds of disaster.

The "Noah's Ark" for plant life is opening in Norway to protect millions of seeds from disasters.

An activist uses a video camera to expose what many would consider a grisly illegal wildlife trade in Myanmar. Warning: graphic imagery.

The largest study yet of genetic variation between and within dozens of populations reveals surprising insights into human migrations and evolution.

Shooting down the out-of-control orbiter would help prevent it from releasing toxic hydrazine gas on impact, experts say—but some skeptics aren't so sure of the danger.

European-Americans are less genetically diverse and have more potentially harmful genetic variations than African-American populations, according to a new study.