Critics: Oregon courts disaster with new tsunami-zone law

With sunlight sparkling off surrounding Yaquina Bay, workers are putting up an ocean-studies building, smack in…

Gentle giraffes threatened with 'silent extinction'

For most of his life as a Samburu warrior, Lesaiton Lengoloni thought nothing of hunting giraffes,…

Sinking city: Indonesia's capital on brink of disaster

Time is running out for Jakarta. Click here for original story, Sinking city: Indonesia’s…

Gay penguins adopt egg after trying to hatch stone

A pair of gay penguins in Germany who tried earnestly to hatch a stone now have…

Ancient feces reveal how 'marsh diet' left Bronze Age Fen folk infected with parasites

New research published today in the journal Parasitology shows how the prehistoric inhabitants of a settlement…

Countries push to protect sharks, rays

Dozens of countries will push at a global meeting for regulations on trade in 18 types…

Tiny lensless endoscope captures 3-D images of objects smaller than a cell

Researchers have developed a new self-calibrating endoscope that produces 3-D images of objects smaller than a…

Genetic redundancy aids competition among bacteria in symbiosis with squid

The molecular mechanism used by many bacteria to kill neighboring cells has redundancy built into its…

Political campaigns may influence acceptance of violence against women

During the 2016 Presidential Election, both major party candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, ran on…

Early species developed much faster than previously thought, research shows

When Earth’s species were rapidly diversifying nearly 500 million years ago, that evolution was driven by…