Research shows that more than half of office workers are dissatisfied with the level of “speech privacy” in their offices, and managers are hearing their complaints.

The engines on a private cargo rocket bound for the International Space Station had ignited, but computers detected a discrepancy and shut them down.

The Land Trust Alliance has won nonprofit status from the Internal Revenue Service for an insurance company it is creating.

After years of exporting prized dinosaur fossils to some of the world’s best museums, Texas will be getting two huge exhibit halls, in Dallas and Houston.

As automakers increase their efforts to design vehicles that are more fuel-efficient, college engineering programs are likewise adapting their curriculums, preparing students to build vehicles increasingly powered by batteries.

Preliminary results from an ongoing, large-scale study shows that oxytocin -- a naturally occurring substance produced in the brain and throughout the body -- increased brain function in regions that are known to process social information in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

New simulation study shows that atmosphere warms when pollution intensifies storms. How much the warming effect of these clouds offsets the cooling that other clouds provide is not yet clear.

At the end of his career, Dr. Robert L. Spitzer has reached a painful conclusion: “I believe,” he wrote in a letter, “I owe the gay community an apology.”

A private company’s test flight will carry 15 student experiments onboard, including one involving winemaking.

Older adults who drank coffee -- caffeinated or decaffeinated -- had a lower risk of death overall than others who did not drink coffee, according a new study.

The US firm SpaceX aborts the lift-off of its Falcon rocket and Dragon ship to the International Space Station.

Cheap, plentiful natural gas provides utilities with little incentive to build coal-fired plants with a technology that traps carbon gas for storage or other uses.

Treece, Kan., has been torn down and may soon be erased from maps. But don’t tell that to the Busbys, who live there.

Using a remotely operated vehicle on the ocean floor, federal scientists happened upon the wreckage of a ship evoking a time when nations vied for power in the Americas.

A company opened a biofuel plant to supply ethanol to households in the Mozambican capital that rely on charcoal for cooking fuel.

An agency official said that the federal government lacked the financing to cover a cleanup of the tsunami debris washing up in Alaska and other states.

Researchers have detected a possible planet, some 1,500 light years away, that appears to be evaporating under the blistering heat of its parent star. The scientists infer that a long tail of debris -- much like the tail of a comet -- is following the planet, and that this tail may tell the story of the planet's disintegration. According to the team's calculations, the tiny exoplanet, not much larger than Mercury, will completely disintegrate within 100 million years.

Human feeding of wild dolphins brings them into contact with anglers and their gear, and leads to increases in serious dolphin injuries and deaths.

A novel experiment sought to demonstrate that how different living things in a community bump up against one another affects how they evolve.

Despite lacking bilateral symmetry, brittle stars, related to starfish, can choose one of their five limbs to be front-facing and use two others to move.