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Hurricane Dorian is thankfully slated to skate just to the east of Puerto Rico this week, but the updated European model shows it nailing central Florida much in the same way Hurricane Andrew did in 1992.

A "remarkably complete" 3.8-million-year-old skull of an early human has been unearthed in Ethiopia, scientists announced Wednesday, a discovery that has the potential to alter our understanding of human evolution.

A powerful gene-editing technology known as CRISPR has led to recent breakthroughs in mice, plants and humans, but getting the technology to work on reptiles had proved impossible because of key reproductive differences.

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke faced off with a man who insisted he should have rights as a former fetus.

Bed bugs have a lousy reputation at the best of times, but these unfortunate insects have taken a particularly firm kicking recently. An announcement that their genome had been sequenced was framed not as a remarkable scientific accomplishment but as useful information to help us humans destroy our enemies.

The emergency threatening part of the world’s largest rainforest is proof that offsets are too risky to count on to cancel out corporate pollution, and that the Amazon needs help without strings attached.

Every year, the US rejects thousands of kidneys from deceased older donors, the majority of which would have been used in France, according to a study published Monday that described the organs as a wasted resource that could save lives.

The Amazon basin cradles the largest rainforest in the world, and plays an essential role in regulating regional and even global climates.

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on Monday expressed support for the idea of using nuclear bombs on hurricanes.

An MSNBC panel couldn't help but laugh and joke at the news that President Donald Trump asked if hurricanes could be stopped with a nuclear bomb.

Just next door, cosmologically speaking, is a planet almost exactly like Earth. It’s about the same size, is made of about the same stuff and formed around the same star.