Infants may have been considered equal members of society 27,000 years ago, contrary to the belief they were treated with indifference. Read more…

More than a third of smokers who had surgery to remove early stage lung cancer were smoking again within a year, a new study finds. Read more…

Bumblebee queens eat their offspring's eggs, and honeybee workers make meals of their siblings' eggs. It's all for the good of the family. Read more…

A series of new studies looked at the potential effects of a regional battle. Devastation to the global environment would be "catastrophic and long term." Read more…

If you're looking to photograph a polar bear hopping sea ice floes on your next summer cruise, you better hurry. Read more…

Long ago, microwave ovens were said to cause cancer. Then it was power lines. After this, computer monitors. Finally, cell phones. Read more…

Squid, jellyfish and other cephalopods are thought to be pretty efficient at getting around. So scientists are copying their natural designs. Read more…

A new order of mammals has been named based on a recently discovered fossil of a squirrel-sized animal that lived at least 130 million years ago and was capable of gliding flight. Read more…

Women with body-image problems eat less in the presence of other women. Men eat more. Read more…

The brain and skull have a lot in common with latex and toothpaste, at least when it comes to electrical conductivity, scientists now find. Read more…

Chipmunks, mice and squirrels are scurrying to higher ground, apparently chased by warmer temperatures, a new study reveals. Read more…

People seem to assign higher value to objects when they're in a friendlier mindset, a new study suggests. Read more…

A new fault formed off the northwest coast of Hawaii on Oct. 15 of this year, and now scientists are figuring out what caused the crack and the ensuing 6.7 magnitude earthquake. Read more…

Armed with nothing more than brain waves and a special cap, a person gets a robot to pick objects up and move them around. Read more…

Tigers in one national park are poached relentlessly, but amazingly their population remain stable. The picture is not so rosy elsewhere as these giant cats are hunted to the brink of extinction. Read more…

AFP - An initial share sale by the Indian unit of British oil firm Cairn Energy was oversubscribed 1.3 times near the lower end of its offer range, a banker and the Mumbai stock exchange has said. Read more…

AP - During the age of dinosaurs, tiny squirrel-like creatures climbed trees and jumped into the darkness. Then they spread their limbs and glided away — the first known mammals to take to the air, a new report says. Read more…

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AP - Kip Davis and Jay Robison saw what they believed was an ivory-billed woodpecker on Thursday, one of thousands of reported sightings piling up as leaves in an east Arkansas swamp drift down. Read more…

AP - A fungal infection likely killed 2,500 mallard ducks in a mysterious cluster along a tiny southeastern Idaho creek, a federal wildlife biologist said Friday. Read more…

AP - A rocket carrying two experimental satellites into orbit blasted off Saturday in the first launch from the mid-Atlantic region's commercial spaceport, blazing a streak across the sky just before sunrise. Read more…

Reuters - Spacewalkers aboard the International Space Station prepared on Sunday for an unplanned, fourth outing to fix a stuck solar array, while other crew members finish transferring cargo brought up by the shuttle Discovery. Read more…

SPACE.com - HOUSTON -- Two spacewalkers working outside the International Space Station (ISS) shook a troublesome solar array late Saturday to help fold it away, but ultimately ran out of time during an extended spacewalk to finish rewiring the orbital laboratory. Read more…

AFP - Astronauts will undertake an unplanned fourth space walk Monday to try to dislodge a stuck solar array on the International Space Station after they failed to solve the problem Saturday. Read more…

AP - Astronaut Robert Curbeam is poised to set a new record next week when he is scheduled to embark on his fourth spacewalk of the space shuttle Discovery mission, this one to work on a stalled solar panel. Read more…