The church may lie beneath a small town in Newfoundland. But a dead historian's notes were destroyed at her request, so no one is sure.

Scores on elementary school achievement tests have a lot to do with smarts and where kids end up later in life.

Corncob waste is one scientist’s solution to the problem of developing smaller natural gas tanks that could fit into passenger vehicles.

Global warming poses a “serious threat to America's national security,'' top retired military leaders warn in a new report.

Christie's auction house in Paris is hosting an unusual auction of scientific curiosities, including a mammoth skeleton and a meteorite.

In April 2008, an airship dubbed Dirigeable is slated to fly over the North Pole. Along the way, an onboard sensor will measure ice thickness across the Arctic.