At dusk, a car stops at a checkpoint in Afghanistan. It is a tense moment for all. Because an interpreter is not available, U.S. Marines use hand gestures to ask the driver to step out of the car and open the trunk and hood for inspection

Researchers have successfully regenerated rabbit joints using a cutting edge process to form the joint inside the body

A new process that simultaneously combines the light and heat of solar radiation to generate electricity could offer more than double the efficiency of existing solar cell technology

Prairie dogs, once abundant in the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains, have been decimated in recent decades by plague -- a virulent bacterial disease spread by fleas

Charles Darwin described the Venus Flytrap as 'one of the most wonderful plants in the world

The Sun's surface erupted early Sunday morning, blasting a wall of ionized atoms into interplanetary space on a collision course toward the Earth

A unique blob-like creature that lived in the ocean approximately 425 million years ago is revealed in a 3D computer model

Fossils of an ancient crocodile with mammal-like teeth have been discovered in the Rukwa Rift Basin of Tanzania

Researchers have overcome a fundamental obstacle in using new "metamaterials" for radical advances in optical technologies, including ultra-powerful microscopes and computers and a possible invisibility cloak

Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have for the first time obtained a three-dimensional view of the distribution of the innermost material expelled by a recently exploded star