CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, announced today  they discovered last year was the Higgs boson.

The species of bacteria, whose traces were found in probes of water from Lake Vostok, do not belong to any of the 40-plus known subkingdoms of bacteria

Physicists in Italy said Wednesday they are achingly close to concluding that what they found last year was the Higgs boson, the elusive "God particle."

The vast majority of the Earth's estimated 13 million species are still unknown

Remember that massive meteorite that crashed down in Russia last week? Well, it arrived a couple thousand years before scientists had predicted

If you're a bee having a hard time finding that flower trying to tell you it's loaded with nectar and pollen, use the force, bee, use the force.

The Obama administration is planning a decade-long scientific effort to examine the workings of the human brain

Ever look up at the stars and wonder if some bug-eyed creature is doing the same? It turns out at least one does: the dung beetle

A real-life "tractor beam", which uses light to attract objects, has been developed by scientists.

The 3.5 billion-year-old fossil could help scientists discover microbes on Mars

Two Army scientists and a university professor earned a patent for the forerunner of a powerful quantum neural dynamics computer chip.

Clip-on or helmet-mounted camera system would fuse useful aspects of visible, near infrared, and infrared images into a single shot

(Reuters) - Scientists at Europe's CERN research center have found a new subatomic particle, a basic building block of the universe

Arkansas Game & Fish is trying to figure out why 100,000 fish in Northwest Arkansas turned up dead.