Scientists have successfully produced functional auditory hair cells in the cochlea of the mouse inner ear. The breakthrough suggests that a new therapy may be developed in the future to successfully treat hearing loss.

NASA's staff will study whether the space shuttle program could continue operating past its scheduled retirement in 2010, according to an internal e-mail sent this week.

Striking evidence has been found for the enigmatic "stuff" called dark matter which makes up 25% of the Universe.

HAVANA (Reuters) - Hurricane Gustav, now a major storm picking up steam over warm sea waters, roared toward western Cuba on Saturday en route to the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico after a deadly pass through the Caribbean.

Indiana and the Bush administration agreed to an unlikely truce allowing a mix of roads, logging and development as well as fully protected forest areas.

Earthquake risk maps should be redrawn following a reanalysis of the factors that caused the Sichuan quake in May, say geologists

Astronomers have captured images of a powerful collision of galaxy clusters and say it may shed light on the behaviour of dark matter.

BAN LOMTUAN, Thailand (AP) -- Preecha Jiabyu used to take tourists on a rowboat to see the banks of the Mae Klong River aglow with thousands of fireflies....

Explorers looking for the lost cities in the Amazon have famously come up empty-handed. But now, scientists have found the remains of numerous smaller villages clustered around larger villages. Urban life may have been a part of the ancient Amazon after all.

INTERIOR, S.D. (AP) -- On the grasslands a few miles from the pinnacles and spires of Badlands National Park, federal wildlife officials have been waging a war since spring to save one of the nation's largest colonies of endangered black-footed ferrets....