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Tue, Mar 19, 2013 8:40 PM by Tia Ghose, LiveScience
When hunters kill primates for their meat, the animals no longer disperse the seeds of some fruit- and nut-bearing trees, and wind-dispersed seedlings take root instead.
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Tue, Mar 19, 2013 12:35 PM by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience
Fragments of a tectonic plate that slid under the North American mantle eons ago were found to make up parts of California and Mexico.
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Mon, Mar 18, 2013 12:54 PM by Marc Lallanilla, LiveScience
Terrible environmental conditions and an unyielding government has put China in dire danger of poisoning its enormous population and the land around it.
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Mon, Mar 18, 2013 11:00 AM by Charles Q. Choi, OurAmazingPlanet
The trench is 'a big hole' that all sorts of sediment and organisms just fall into.
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Mon, Mar 18, 2013 9:04 AM by John Platt
The school plans to fund a study on the effects of fracking by allowing the controversial extraction process to take place on 8,000 acres in Cumberland Forest.
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Sat, Mar 16, 2013 8:20 AM by Live Science Staff
Scientists discovered hundreds of dinosaur egg fossils, including 4 kinds that had never been found before in the region.
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Wed, Mar 13, 2013 1:53 PM by Becky Oskin, OurAmazingPlanet
Sound is so fundamental to life that some scientists now think there's a kernel of truth to folklore that plants can communicate.
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Wed, Mar 13, 2013 1:08 PM
Video: Mitch Seavey is the oldest person to win the Iditarod trail sled dog race, a 1,000-mile event. His son, Dallas, became the youngest winner in history after winning last year at age 25.
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Wed, Mar 13, 2013 10:30 AM by Owen Jarus, LiveScience
The discovery of the text doesn't mean the events described in them happened, but rather that some people living at the time appear to have believed in them.
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Tue, Mar 12, 2013 8:10 AM by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience
Some people have interpreted 2 medieval-era prophecies to mean that the next pope elected will be the last before doomsday.
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Mon, Mar 11, 2013 8:10 PM by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience
Arctic ozone depletion is typically not as severe as that in the Antarctic.
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Mon, Mar 11, 2013 1:25 PM by Catie Leary
March 11 marks the second anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that displaced more than 30,000 and left more than 19,000 dead or missing.
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Mon, Mar 11, 2013 1:10 PM by Tia Ghose, LiveScience
We've lost ancient ways of reading the environment to navigate, and humans' way-finding abilities are less precise than the abilities of other animals.
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Mon, Mar 11, 2013 10:07 AM by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience
The debris slowly arriving in North America is only a fraction of the estimated 5 million tons of rubble and other materials swept into the sea by the tsunami.
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Sat, Mar 09, 2013 8:50 AM by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience
The history of daylight saving time has been anything but peaceful, from its first wartime introduction to its ongoing controversy today.
