American Express has announced its plans to donate $1 toward relief efforts for every message of hope shared for Japan on Facebook.

Scientists from Japan and Europe have used a CERN experiment to measure the mass of the antiproton to an accuracy of about one part in a billion. Such an experiment helps scientists to research the relationship of matter and antimatter in the universe.

According to a study in the journal Nature, American researchers contend that conservation measures need to be stepped up in order to reduce today’s higher than normal extinction rates; and, to prepare for a mass extinction, possibly already under way.

Research into two groups of marine worms has found that they have “evolved backwards” and that they evolved from the same ancestors as humans.

The end of each year seems to be the appropriate time to review the highlights of the past year. The journal Nature has dramatic pictures included with its 2010 science highlights, and it’s well worth a look.

Canon has developed the world's largest CMOS image sensor - a huge 202 by 205mm chip.

You might think that the world's leading paleontologists had better things to do than reverse engineer a chicken, but you would be wrong.

Who gets to give trees their names, and why would anyone call a new species the No Parking tree?

The World Wide Fund for Nature collected data from nearly 4,000 species spanning a 35-year period. According to its study, land-based and water-based species declined 27% from 1970 to 2005.

On Thursday, April 17, 2008, the genome of James Watson was published in the journal Nature. Watson co-discovered the twisted double helix structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), the substance that carries an organism’s genetic information.