Researchers document that woodland hawks — once in precipitous decline due to pollution, persecution and habitat loss — have become firmly established in even the starkest urban environments, thrivi..

Even a Category 4 hurricane doesn't kill the mood for coastal fish — and that's good news for all species, as well as for a multibillion-dollar recreational fishing industry. As extreme wea..

Hearing has long been suspected as being 'on' all the time — even in our sleep. Now scientists are reporting results on what is heard and not heard during sleep and what that might mean for..

The prevalence of female genital mutilation/cutting among girls up to the age of 14 has fallen sharply in most regions of Africa over the past three decades, reveals a new analysis.

Summer birth and hours spent playing computer games are linked to a heightened risk of developing short or near sightedness (myopia) in childhood, indicates a twin study.

Children may be most at risk of being stabbed on their way home from school.

Study could transform care for organ transplant recipients.

Sixty-nine pharmaceutical compounds have been detected in stream insects, some at concentrations that may threaten animals that feed on them, such as trout and platypus.

Moths are a mainstay food source for bats, which use echolocation to hunt their prey. Scientists are studying how moths have evolved passive defenses over millions of years to resist their primary pre..

Study identifies reasons for unsettled editing disagreements and offers predictive tools that could improve deliberation.