Often when women get together, the chatter eventually turns to whose skinny jeans don?t fit anymore and who weighs in heavier on the scale, according to a new study.

Deforestation is reversing in Europe and North America, but most developing countries continue to cut down their trees, a U.N. agency said Tuesday.

Earthquake faults are worn smooth over time by friction like the brake pads of an old car, according to a new study.

The long childhoods and delayed maturity common in modern humans might be a recent development that first emerged only a few thousand years ago in early members of our species living in Africa.

Development over the past two centuries has eliminated or destroyed many caves in St. Louis County, Missouri, a state that could quite rightly call itself the Cave State.