Scientists have been wagering privately for years, now the public can bet on climate change effects. The odds, however, are not in your favor.

Federal investigators interested in gauging its usefulness in national security applications find algorithms have improved by a factor of 20 in the last five years.

Novel nanogenerator could power small electronic devices by harnessing your footsteps or even your blood flow.

A new study finds men are more likely than women to first look at faces rather than other parts of the body.

It has a movie series and one mouthful of a phobia—paraskavedekatriaphobia—in its honor.

Until now, the commercially available medicinal leeches were considered to be the species Hirudo medicinalis (top of image), but genetic analyses reveal they are a distinct species, Hirudo verbana (bottom of image).