People with FASPS, a rare sleep disorder, have body clocks that are out of sync with most of the world. Researchers say they've traced a genetic culprit.
A magnitude 8.7 earthquake struck near the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Monday, initially raising fears that another deadly tsunami could ripple across the region.
With efforts to reinsert her feeding tube exhausted, Florida brain damage victim Terri Schiavo will die in days. But she will not feel pain, neurologists say.
For the first time, scientists have extracted what appears to be soft tissue from a dinosaur. The meaty-looking tissue seems to contain blood vessels and cells.
The quake that triggered the December 26 tsunami has increased stress on nearby faults, making another major South Asian quake more likely, scientists say.
The time is now for rich nations to share cash, food, and knowledge with the hundreds of millions of people enduring extreme poverty and hunger, a recent UN report says.
CT scans of Tutankhamun found no physical evidence of murder. But they did reveal unusual features, including a broken leg that may have helped kill him.
Ancient artifacts unearthed on a college campus are prompting archaeologists to rethink theories about Native Americans' early presence in North Carolina.
Tiny fossils found in October do in fact represent a new human species, and its smart but small brain could overturn decades of evolution theory, experts say.
The introduction of the electric refrigerator in 1929 spelled the end of most annual ice harvests, but not all—as a town in upstate New York demonstrates each year.
