Sniffing the air does more than just vacuum odors into your nose. It also ramps up electrical signals from the snout to the brain, helping the schnoz detect even faint scents....

Mark Ternent with the Pennsylvania Game Commission reaches into a black bear den in Milford, Pa. Wildlife biologists are attempting to gauge the health and size of the state's bear population....

New Zealand's focus on ethanol production as a replacement for fossil fuels could be misplaced, visiting US experts say. Within 15 years, the biofuel of choice would not be ethanol-based, Professor...

Winter in the northern hemisphere this year has been the warmest since records began more than 125 years ago, a US government agency says....

The internet's key site identity system is in mounting danger from new techniques that could cause havoc by turning it into a free-for-all market, the World Intellectual Property Organisation WIPO war...

That morning latte or expresso may not be the pick-me-up people think it is, a study has revealed. University of Bristol researchers say the caffeine eases withdrawal symptoms which...

A new study in the journal Neurology is being hailed as unassailable proof that marijuana is a valuable medicine. It is a sad commentary on the state of modern medicine -- and US drug policy -- that w...

Two of the world's leading oil producers have almost overnight joined some of the biggest players in wind power in the United States, accelerating a trend of large corporations investing in the rapidl...

Britain's oldest employee has told how he single-handedly fought off a gang of muggers. Buster Martin, 100, a van cleaner for Pimlico Plumbers, was walking to a bus stop in south London when three...

Amos Kloner, the first archaeologist to examine the site, said the idea fails to hold up by archaeological standards but makes for profitable television....