Last year (2016) was the warmest year in the modern record, NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) officials said today (Jan. 18) during a news conference. Here's how they calculated that value.
The most comprehensive review of primate populations ever conducted finds that 60 percent of our closest biological relatives are threatened with extinction.
The remains of at least 123 people have been excavated at a series of four cemeteries near the ruins of a medieval Christian monastery in Sudan.
Over the last two years, the remains of at least 123 individuals have been uncovered at a series of four cemeteries near a medieval Christian monastery at al-Ghazali in Sudan.
The unusual agreement could act as insurance for NASA's access to the International Space Station should commercial launches be delayed.
Here are the medical treatments that are least likely to help you.
Time is fixed, but people experience hours, months and days in very different ways. One researcher has spent decades exploring this universal phenomenon.
From Harriet Tubman to Russian double agents, here are some of the most famous spies in history.
Surprisingly, the researchers found a high rate of HPV infection in older men.
It's not yet clear what caused a deadly avalanche in Italy on Wednesday (Jan. 18), but experts said it's too soon to blame the cataclysm on a series of substantial earthquakes that happened earlier that day.
Egg freezing has been touted as a way for women to put off having children. But few women who freeze their eggs actually end up using them, a new study finds.
Lame-duck presidents used to stew for much longer.
Rescuing people from a mountain hotel that was buried in snow in Italy is an enormously complex operation, and survival depends on many variables, experts said.
The video is an "exploration of visual art under a microscope."
Move over, vaginal steaming: Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is suggesting an alleged new way to boost your reproductive health: a "jade egg" that's inserted into the vagina
A collection of declassified files for Stargate — a U.S. Army investigation of psychic abilities for use by military intelligence — was recently shared online by the CIA.
Donald Trump will place his hand on the Bible and swear an oath to serve the United States. Here's how religion made its way into the ceremony ... and the government.