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A new analysis of an old human ancestor fossil indicates that human brains started growing 2.5 million years ago, about the time humans started walking upright.

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A genetic study of horses across Eastern Europe and Central Asia has traced the domestication of one of man’s most powerful animal allies to wide-open grasslands shared by Ukraine, southwest Russia and Kazakhstan, researchers said Monday.

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Kids who watch television are less likely to eat fruits and vegetables daily, and more likely to eat junk food, according to a new study.

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Mothers often don’t realize when their toddler is overweight, a new study suggests.

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South Korea has seized thousands of smuggled drug capsules filled with powdered flesh from dead babies, which some people believe can cure disease, officials said Monday.

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Your last chance to watch Venus cross the face of the sun is less than a month away.

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Scientists are planning to use NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to observe next month’s historic transit of Venus across the sun’s face.

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Potty humor just got prehistoric. A new study suggests that dinosaurs may have helped keep an already overheated world warmer with their flatulence and burps 200 million years ago.

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New York Knicks star Amare Stoudemire scored 20 points in an NBA playoff win Sunday, but the bandage on his left hand reminded fans that he’d recently made headlines in quite a different way: smashing the glass of a fire extinguisher case after losing in Miami six days earlier.

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Eight rare Mexican wolf pups have been born at a preserve in the New York City suburbs, a development that could aid the federal program that has reintroduced the endangered species to the wild.

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AP - Scientists used a cloning technique to create the type of customized stem cells that show promise for treating disease. But the first-of-its-kind result comes with a big hitch.

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