Elephants race for safety upon smelling clothes worn by Maasai men, who occasionally spear the animals, a new study reveals. Clothing worn by less threatening Kamba men, however, evokes a milder reaction.
A bizzare black hole roughly 16 times as massive as the sun is locked in a tight orbit with a star that has 70 times the sun's mass, astronomers announced.
The thinness of the Indian continent allowed it to speed northward at ten times the rate of other tectonic plates after the breakup of a supercontinent 150 million years ago, a new study suggests.
Explorers have set off to make the first accurate measurements of the polar ice cap's thickness in the North Pole, data that will help scientists understand global warming.
The Indonesian government on Tuesday ordered the mandatory evacuation of 30,000 people living within the vicinity of Mt. Kelud, which scientists fear may erupt.
A new species of plant-eating dinosaur may have been discovered in Patagonia, scientists announced Monday. At 105 feet long (32 meters long), it is one of the largest dino species ever found.
Faint stars that formed as much as ten billion years ago reveal that a supposedly young galaxy is actually a "developmentally challenged" grown-up, astronomers say.
Using genes from soil microbes and rabbit livers, two independent research groups developed plants that can remove harmful chemicals from the environment.
After a two-year delay, Airbus has finally delivered the A380, the world's largest passenger jet. The plane will make its inaugural flight on October 25.
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace Prize today for their efforts to publicize global warming.
Methane rain pelts Saturn's largest moon every morning, a new study says. The find adds to evidence that Titan has a methane cycle closely resembling Earth's water cycle.
