Swashbuckling entrepreneur Richard Branson hurtled into space aboard his own winged rocket ship Sunday in his boldest adventure yet, beating out fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos.
CRISPR gene editing is a relatively new tool, but it already offers amazing potential to cure genetic disease. Can we harness its promise without falling prey to its possible harms?
Federal and state wildlife officials in the Mid-Atlantic region of the eastern U.S. are asking people to stop feeding birds and providing water in bird baths amid dozens of reports of mysterious songbird deaths.
The Delta variant is the fast-moving strain of the coronavirus now found in 96 countries. It's expected to be the dominant variant in the U.S. within weeks.
It's a smackdown of one space monster by another: Scientists have made unprecedented observations of two black holes gobbling two neutron stars — among the weirdest space collisions ever detected.
Scientists successfully treated a rare disease with the experimental gene-editing technique. It could open the door to new ways of treating more common disorders in the future.
After more than a decade, the terrorizing reign of the yellow crazy ant is over on the Johnston Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. The invasive insect had been threatening ground-nesting seabirds on the Pacific atoll since at least 2010.
A U.S. government report on UFOs, released Friday, said it found no evidence of aliens, but acknowledged 143 reports of "unidentified aerial phenomena" since 2004 that could not be explained.