Eating lettuce may be worse than eating bacon. Scientists have found that consuming more fruits, vegetables, dairy and seafood is more harmful to the environment since they have relatively high resource uses and greenhouse gas emissions per calorie.
The world's most sensitive detector may have found a bit more about dark matter. The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment has dramatically improved its detector's sensitivity.
It turns out that there may be evidence for more recent clay formation on Mars, which may tell researchers a bit more about the Red Planet and show a bit more about the conditions that may have once been hospitable to Martian life.
Scientists may have uncovered a fossilized "white whale," similar to the creature that swam in Herman Melville's Moby Dick. They've found a 15 million-year-old fossil sperm whale specimen that belongs to a new genus.
The NASA Cassini spacecraft has done its deepest dive to date through the icy plumes that spew from Saturn's moon, Enceladus.
The NASA Cassini spacecraft has captured a stunning new image of Saturn's moons, Enceladus and Tethys, lining up like some kind of cosmic bulls-eye. The new images reveal a bit more about the moons as Cassini continues its mission.
Bycatch may be threatening marine animals around the world.
Sea lions may be being poisoned by toxic algae.
It turns out that humans may have actually evolved to get less sleep. Scientists have taken a closer look at animals and humans and have found that our sleep is more efficient.
Could having tinnitus--otherwise known as ringing in the ears--affect the ability to process emotions?
Rapid arctic warming may be driving some major shifts in marine mammals.
Researchers are examining the earth's core and they are studying past changes in sea levels to make future predictions regarding climate change.
