Marine archaeologists made a thrilling discovery this week while examining a well-preserved shipwreck deep in the Gulf of Mexico — two other sunken vessels that likely went down with it during an early 19th

Swiss researchers said Thursday that people really do have a hard time getting a good night's sleep when the moon is full, even when they can't see it. The results of a study on 33

Stressful events can often coincide with the creation of false memories, when people recall things that never happened, and scientists said Thursday they are learning more about this curious phenomenon. A better understanding of false

Two NASA spacecraft are about to take pictures of the Earth for planetary science research, and the U.S. space agency is encouraging people worldwide to jump into the shot. "Consider it the first interplanetary photobomb,"

Warfare was uncommon among hunter-gatherers, and killings among nomadic groups were often due to competition for women or interpersonal disputes, researchers in Finland said Thursday. Their study in the U.S. journal Science suggests that the

Gene scientists on Wednesday said that in lab-dish cells, they had found a way to switch off the rogue chromosome that causes Down's syndrome. The breakthrough opens up the tantalising goal of therapy for Down's,

India will Monday launch the first stage of its domestic satellite navigation network which will eventually provide services both to civilians and the military and is similar to the U.S. Global Positioning System, officials

Marine scientists have called on New Zealand to immediately ban fishing in waters inhabited by the world's rarest dolphin, saying that losing just one more of the creatures will threaten the species' existence. The Maui's

NASA scientists said Friday they were testing a prototype of a robot the U.S. space agency hopes to send to Mars in 2020 in Chile's Atacama desert. NASA hopes to use this kind of rover