Sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached a new record high extent this year, covering more of the southern oceans than it has since scientists began a l...
Peer-to-peer file sharing of movies, television shows, music, books and other files over the Internet has grown rapidly worldwide as an alternative ap...
Studying rats as model subjects, scientists found that adolescents were at an increased risk of suffering negative health effects from sugar-sweetened...
Managers can promote creativity in employees by "empowering leadership" and earning employees' trust, according to a new study by Rice U...
Certain types of corals, invertebrates of the sea that have been on Earth for millions of years, appear to have found a way to survive some of their m...
The discovery of new bones from a large land mammal that lived about 48 million years ago has led scientists to identify a new branch of mammals close...
Being the center of attention can have its drawbacks. For female chimpanzees, being around too many rowdy males is disadvantageous when foraging for f...
Melanoma is the fifth most common cancer type in the United States, and it's also the deadliest form of skin cancer, causing more than 75 percent ...
Gender diversity in the workplace helps firms be more productive, according to a new study co-authored by an MIT researcher -- but it may also reduce ...
Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston say that sexting may be the new "normal" part of adolescent sexual develo...