The island's Communist government has lifted a ban that prevented citizens from signing up for cellular service for more than a decade.

Crystals from the walls of a government-run nuclear waste facility contain 253-million-year-old cellulose and possibly ancient DNA, scientists announced.

A 9,550-year-old "Christmas tree" discovered on a Swedish mountain is the planet's most ancient known living plant, according to scientists.

The first statewide temblor forecast calculates a 99.7 percent chance that a magnitude 6.7 quake or larger will strike the state in the next 30 years.

Researchers in Indonesia have discovered a rare frog species that has no lungs and instead gets all its oxygen through its skin.

If confirmed, the rocky world would be the first outside our solar system to be revealed by its effect on the orbit of a planetary neighbor.

The world's best preserved woolly mammoth—a 37,000-year-old female—gets CT-scanned in an unprecedented look at prehistoric biology.

A baby woolly mammoth frozen in Arctic Russia has provided the first detailed glimpse of the inner workings of a prehistoric mammal, scientists say.

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The Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Yi So-yeon and two Russian cosmonauts docked successfully Thursday with the International Space Station.

The tiny moon Phobos and its enormous impact crater star in several colorful new images taken by NASA's HiRISE camera.

A new technique that looks at chemical clues in seawater suggests that the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago was a mere 2.5 to 3.7 miles (4 to 6 kilometers) across.

Warming may cause a feedback loop by decreasing plant growth that causes reflective clouds to form, according to scientists studying the age of dinosaurs.

A system of underwater listening posts off the New England coast detects whale sounds and then automatically alerts ships to slow down to avoid killing the critically endangered animals.

Last year's magnitude 8.1 temblor crossed a fault between two tectonic plates that should have stopped it from becoming that powerful, a study of local reefs reveals.