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Oil companies to ‘bounce back’ after Hurricane Sandy: BP CEO

Hurricane Sandy in New York City: Hospitals evacuated, subways flooded and Con Edison plant explodes

Ash dieback fungus kills 100,000 trees in Britain

Mars rocket for humans given a boost by NASA

Old English sheepdogs may go extinct

Economic impact of Hurricane Sandy

Here's why Hurricane Sandy is such a monster storm

Chinese protesters force abandonment of chemical plant

Geneva could be at risk of lake tsunamis: something else for you to be terrified of!

SpaceX capsule safely lands in Pacific Ocean

SpaceX capsule safely lands in Pacific Ocean

Horror movies help you burn up to 200 calories per hour

Chemical plant expansion in China shelved following protests

Australia: Great Barrier Reef found to be healthier at depth, despite surface damage

16 tiger cubs rescued from back of pickup in Thailand (VIDEO)

Aan, orangutan shot with 104 air pellets, rescued in Indonesia

Mold, bacteria found at factory tied to meningitis outbreak

Save Earth from asteroids with paintball, MIT grad student suggests (VIDEO)

Hurricane Sandy worse than the 'perfect storm' of '91, experts say

Photos show dead sperm whale in Gulf of Mexico

Snake on a plane (no, really this time) lands in Scotland from Mexico

Rare ladybug acts like a turtle, hides head in own throat

Beijing's controversial plan to cut traffic in half

South Korea rocket launch halted by leaky seal

Hurricane Sandy, Frankenstorm, Snowicane: Call it what you will — forecasters say US storm could be huge

Antarctic ozone hole is nearly smallest it's been for 20 years, NASA says

Fukushima fish still contaminated, new study says

Asia's newest elite drink? Elephant dung coffee

Gaga germanotta, Gaga monstraparva: Botanists name new fern genuses after Lady Gaga

Grandmothers responsible for human life span

Fire blast shot out of black hole captured on camera

Shark kills surfer Francisco Javier Solorio Jr. off Surf Beach in California

Cooked food made brains grow during human evolution, says study

Premonition may exist, say researchers at Northwestern

Russian Soyuz rocket launches 32 fish into orbit

Dutch towns consider heating bicycle lanes to convince people to bike through the winter

Italy earthquake: Luciano Maiani, disaster chief, quits over L'Aquila quake convictions

Meteor lands on roof of California home during Orionid shower

Male beluga whale mimics human sounds (VIDEO)

Italian scientists found guilty of manslaughter for failing to predict deadly L'Aquila quake

AIDS vaccine 'a step closer' after HIV antibodies discovery

What caused deadly Spanish earthquake? Scientists think deep wells could be to blame

Hong Kong seizes massive $3.4 million African ivory shipment

Dolphins sleep with half their brain at a time, study says

Returning a smile depends on complex social hierarchy, says study

Halley's Comet meteor shower expected to light the sky tonight

Alaska argues to keep polar bears off endangered species list, with populations at 'all-time-high'

Nom, nom: Curiosity Mars Rover ingests first soil sample

In Search of GroundTruth: A new view of the Arctic oil quest

Zookeeper crushed by elephant critical but stable

Enormous "Daddy-long-legs" species discovered in Lao jungle

Stanford Ovshinsky, whose inventions led to flat-screen TVs and the Toyota Prius, dies at 89 (VIDEO)

Argonaut octopus found by fisherman off California's shores (VIDEO)

India: Delhi and Mumbai are neither lovable nor livable, says UN

Save the sharks, says Costa Rica

In Laos, a freakishly long "daddy long legs" is discovered

India: PM pledges $50 million for biodiversity protection, but are the 'rich' countries listening?

Prestige oil spill trial opens in Spain

Geoengineering experiment off Canadian coast is the world's largest ever

Meteor shower from Halley's Comet expected this week

Rhino killings reach record levels in South Africa

September was the warmest ever on record, say scientists

Felix Baumgartner breaks sound barrier, YouTube live video record (VIDEO)

Planet with four stars found

Hand movements could change what you hear, says study

Electric underpants can prevent bedsores, researchers claim

Boredom is actually linked to stress, say researchers

Giant eyeball mystery solved: Likely belonged to swordfish (VIDEO)

Apes, monkeys, lemurs among world's most endangered primates

India: Can India Inc make interest payments on its dollar debt?

Chinese scientist suspects that humans used to eat pandas

Trigger of volcanic explosions discovered by researchers (VIDEO)

Shuttle Endeavour makes its way through LA streets

Immense elk-shaped geoglyph found in Russia, resembling the Nazca Lines of Peru

Taotao the panda finishes survival training, goes wild (VIDEO)

Wracked with guilt? You may just have a highly-developed moral compass, new study finds

Universe is a computer simulation? German scientists say they can find out

Mars Rover finds mysterious rock never before seen on the Red Planet

Asteroid the size of a house to brush by Earth tonight (VIDEO)

Disney switching paper source to go green

Julius Caesar died here: archeologists find place where Roman general fell

Soft-shelled turtle pees from its mouth, researchers discover

Can you identify an enormous mystery eyeball? Eyeball washes ashore in Florida and public invited to figure out where it came from (VIDEO)

Singing mice can adapt their tune, say researchers

Scientists pinpoint the harshest sound in the world (AUDIO)

Scientists discover planet made of diamond

National Zoo's baby panda died of insufficient oxygen to liver

Belo Monte: Indigenous groups reoccupy dam in Brazil's Amazon rainforest

Einstein's theory of special relativity extends beyond speed of light

SpaceX success! 'Dragon' docks at International Space Station