From slime to sponges, scientists are plumbing the ocean's depths for new medications to treat cancer, pain and other ailments
Where miners used to dig, an endangered bat now flourishes, highlighting a new use for abandoned mineral sites
What does the Dalai Lama have to teach psychologists about joy and contentment?
Finding pharmaceuticals in the sea, unsettling images and nuggets of Americana
Quests to Save a Tree... and a Country
Scores of teams battle for fame and glory in the no-holds-barred World Series of Birding
A San Francisco scientist's genetic research renews the ancient hope for a way to slow aging
Blamed for destroying one of North Africa's most important forests, Morocco's Barbary macaques struggle to survive
A Los Angeles scientist says living cells may make distinct sounds, which might someday help doctors "hear" diseases
Panama offers an ideal vantage point for scientists to see the big picture of life on earth
Floridians raise a ruckus over manatees as biologists weigh prospects for the endangered species' survival
New research shows how microscopic diatoms remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and may help keep the planet from overheating
Is that a scowl or just disgust? Facial expressions can be harder to interpret than most of us realize, but help is on the way
Insomniac islanders are hopping mad over a tiny frog from that threatens their fragile ecosystem
When biologists study food theft among endangered roseate terns, they find that crime most definitely pays
Raymond Damadian refuses to take his failure to win a Nobel Prize, for a prototype MRI machine, lying down
From Triton's active geysers to the Sun's seething flares, newly enhanced images from U.S. and foreign space probes depict the solar system as never before
A more than 70-year effort to "control" America's largest river basin swamp is threatening the Cajun culture that thrives on it
A new finding that fish feel pain has set off a tortured debate about the ethics of angling
A dazzling exhibition space celebrates mammalian diversity through re-creations of habitats on four continents
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