Companies, including beer giant SABMiller, are starting to account for their water use as the world's fresh water supplies appear to shrink. But when will consumers around the world get to see this information on product labels?

A "bathtub ring" of minerals inside Columbus crater makes the basin the best place yet to study the chemistry of so-called fossil lakes on Mars, researchers say.

Nazi doctor Josef Mengele was likely behind the astonishing number of blonde twins in a remote Brazilian town, recent reports said. But a new study says it was just genetics acting naturally.

With boots thrown hastily on deck and cooking utensils scattered, the last moments of the crew aboard the gold rush-era paddleboat A. J. Goddard are preserved in the ship's recently found wreck, archaeologists say.

Seen under ultraviolet light, a ripening banana's brown spots are each ringed by an eerie blue glow created by dying cells, offering researchers a new way to study how plants live and die, a new study says.

On the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species, an intelligent design advocate and an evolutionist weigh in on six natural wonders often cited as evidence against Darwin's theory.

A normally shy male twig catfish took center stage at the Smithsonian National Zoo this month as guardian of a new clutch of catfish hatchlings.

On the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, it's widely accepted that humans descended from apes. But where are we going? Scientists share visions of cyborgs, stout mothers, and dead ends.