LONDON (Reuters) - A giant asteroid smashing into Earth is the only plausible explanation for the extinction of the dinosaurs, a global scientific tea

GENEVA (Reuters) - Dark matter, which scientists believe makes up 25 percent of the universe but whose existence has never been proven, could be detec

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TORONTO (Reuters) - Internet retailer Amazon.com has smashed up against Canadian pride in its efforts to open a distribution center in Canada, as book

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - With shrinking audiences, deep layoffs and two management shake-ups, MySpace, the one-time leader in Internet social network

German researchers studying the psychology of sexual attraction found that stressed men made strange choices in sexual preferences.

The digital billboard similar to ones from the Tom Cruise film are being developed by NEC, the Japanese technology company.

The penguin, believed to have melanism, was spotted on Fortuna Bay, an island off South Georgia, about 860 miles off the Falklands.

Towering 10 feet into the air and weighing more than half a ton, it was the biggest bird that ever lived until French colonists wiped it out more than

A cow has given birth to triplets despite the odds of doing so being 100,000 to one.

Millions of sap-sucking insects are to be introduced to control Japanese knotweed. But what kind of insect is the new gardener's friend?

What women eat while they are in the early stages of pregnancy influences the sex and health of their unborn baby, new research suggests.

Like humans Bonobo apes hate to dine alone, new research suggests.

The country's notoriously fickle weather appears to be behind why more Scottish people have ginger hair.