A new family of caecilians, the most enigmatic branch of the amphibians, has been discovered in northeastern India ...

(Reuters) - Canadian Solar Inc plans to build a factory in Japan and is currently in negotiations with local governments in Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures, the Nikkei reported ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The former manufacturing plant and headquarters financed by a controversial government loan to the now bankrupt Solyndra LLC is up for sale and could attract high-tech companies ...

Tufts University is pushing to address race, ethnicity and diversity on campus in an effort to provide a more inclusive environment for diversity ...

Scientists tag Humboldt squid as they dive through very low-oxygen waters off the coast of California ...

A year on, modellers continue to provide daily forecasts of the likely spread of floating debris washed out into the Pacific by the Japanese Tohoku megatsunami ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Countries opposed to an EU law which forces the world's airlines to pay for their emissions have agreed a basket of retaliatory measures but will leave it up to each country to ...

Experts say they have seen an increase in the number of Britain's most dangerous spider, the false widow. But should it worry us? ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government has agreed to accelerate the next round of cuts in state-mandated photovoltaic incentives by three months to April 1 after a record-breaking expansion of ...

A new study comparing chromosomes in humans and rhesus monkeys suggests genetic decay of the male sex chromosome has all but ended ...