Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank have won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering "micro credit," small loans to help the poor run their own businesses.
Cooking, breaking rocks, hauling bricks—some 12 million children work in the Asian country. A new law aims to change that but may do more harm than good.
The eating habits of dung beetles, the attraction of mosquitoes to Limburger cheese, and "digital rectal massage" were among the research awarded at this year's Ig Nobels.
People in the developed world today are taller and more robust than their great-great-grandparents ever imagined, and not just because of better medicine, a researcher says.
This week: "Elvis" woodpecker sighted, anti-terrorist fish guard cities, mystery of fingerprintless people solved, python eats pregnant sheep, and more.
New analysis of bones from an infamous dinosaur long believed to have eaten its own young show that the animal may have been given an undeserved reputation.
Archaeologists have discovered more than 40 mummified dogs in a thousand-year-old Peruvian cemetery, yielding vital clues about the ancient culture that revered them.
Join scientists at the site where they unearthed "Lucy's baby," and learn how they discovered the oldest and most complete human ancestor child ever found.
Beginning about 700,000 years ago, ancient humans were driven off the British Isles seven times by the approach of cold weather, according to new archaeological evidence.
