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Curiosity has found some intriguing stuff in the Martian dirt, but it's not clear whether trace organic material is from Earth.

A forensic chemist at a Massachusetts crime lab was arrested for tampering with drug evidence recently. A bad egg or the product of perverse incentives?

And what really makes curly hair different than straight hair?

The idea that Viagra helps out athletes has been around for years now, but is there a scientific consensus on it?

University of Warwick researchers have developed a new material that is conductive, piezoresistant, and printable in the latest generation of consumer 3-D printers.

The computer program recognizes items, learns and remembers--and even passes some basic components of an IQ test.

A landmark study refines measurements of losses in Greenland and Antarctica and how ice melt is contributing to rising seas. Here's why that is important.

By "tagging" the ideal shot through the rifle scope before firing, shooters may never miss again.

The service will start with stores in the Netherlands and Belgium in early 2013, then move on "quickly" to other countries.

In a word, terrible. On the bright side, your odds of becoming a pro athlete are good by comparison!

By tracking the cows' diets, and thus their methane production, researchers can help slow global warming.

It's not that meanies are more physically attractive than everyone else. They're just very good at fooling us.

The 'temperature-tolerant chocolate' stays solid at temperatures that would turn conventional chocolate into a gooey mess.

Glowing galactic center located near a supermassive black hole

Sure, chimps and dolphins are smart. But did you know about the terrifyingly intelligent Komodo dragon, the paranoid squirrel, or the insect supervillain Portia labiata?

The 'biggest breakthrough since the jet' could reach anywhere in the world in just four hours or power a spaceplane into orbit with no need for rocket stages.

Britain's Environmental Agency is taking a keen interest in housing technology that embraces flooding rather than fights it.

Physicists need love, too. Just ask Paul Frampton, the physics professor who was sentenced recently after an alleged scam involving drugs and a bikini model.

To deduce how and when the Earth was formed, we need to know exactly what it's made of.