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There are fewer than 150 adult kakapo in New Zealand, but this year’s bumper crop of almost 90 chicks renews hope that the bird can be saved from extinction

Put the book down.

RESIDENTS of Kuda Huvadhoo in the Maldives allegedly witnessed Malaysia Airlines flight 370 flying overhead on the day it went missing.

And that can be really dangerous.

The search for new habitable worlds begins.

The other climate change refugees.

You can stop that cleanse now.

A new campaign says we should pay less tax on plants because they are good for the environment and mental health.

It is their "beauty of colour and space that makes me keep coming back", artist says.

NASA has a new social media campaign to gear up its audience for Earth Day, an annual event to celebrate our planet – and the importance of protecting the environment – on April 22.

A slavery-themed ad for Ancestry.com exposes the awkward relationship between America's darkest history and the current boom in family-tree building.

The long-awaited, crowdfunded 'DS9' documentary will screen on May 13.

As genome sequencing becomes cheaper and faster, resulting in an exponential increase in data, the need for efficiency in predicting gene function is growing, as is the need to train the next generation of scientists in bioinformatics. Researchers in the lab of Lukas Mueller, a faculty member of the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI), have developed a strategy to fulfill both of these needs, benefiting students and researchers in the process.

SpaceX has pushed back the launch of its next robotic resupply mission to the International Space Station by four days, to April 30.

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said the hearing was an "opportunity to continue to gather facts and to fully explore the proposal."

Physicists at the University of Zurich have developed an amazingly simple device that allows heat to flow temporarily from a cold to a warm object without an external power supply. Intriguingly, the process initially appears to contradict the fundamental laws of physics.

On April 18, the European Space Agency released an image featuring the hourglass-shaped Southern Crab Nebula to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's birthday coming up next week.

A slower, thoughtful episode beautifully observes and parodies human behavior in "The Orville" season's penultimate episode.

Solid-state sodium-ion batteries are far safer than conventional lithium-ion batteries, which pose a risk of fire and explosions, but their performance has been too weak to offset the safety advantages. Researchers Friday reported developing an organic cathode that dramatically improves both stability and energy density.

The huge team behind the Event Horizon Telescope already made news with their first image of a black hole. But they've got bigger ambitions.

It sure looks that way.

AN ALIEN face photographed by NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover is “100 percent proof” of alien UFOs roaming the Red Planet, according to a prominent UFO researcher.

Since the CRISPR genome editing technology was invented in 2012, it has shown great promise to treat a number of intractable diseases. However, scientists have struggled to identify potential off-target effects in therapeutically relevant cell types, which remains the main barrier to moving therapies to the clinic. Now, a group of scientists at the Gladstone Institutes and the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI), with collaborators at AstraZeneca, have developed a reliable method to do just that.

What will a three-degree-warmer world look like? How will plants fare in more extreme weather conditions? When experiencing stress or damage from various sources, plants use chloroplast-to-nucleus communication to regulate gene expression and help them cope.

One of the oldest known annual meteor showers, peaking early this week, may unfortunately be hindered by an almost-full moon.