A 28-year-old man from Mexico — labeled as an illegal alien — is facing federal charges after gunfire in a Danville ...

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about where you live than about what consciousness really requires.

The increased study of extremophile microbes has revealed a lot about what is and is not needed to sustain life on Earth ...

Octopuses, bees, and dogs all process information differently. Even within the narrow confines of one planet, evolution produced a wide range of nervous systems rather than a single design. A new ...

Pollinator Week runs June 22–28 in Barrie with a photo contest, Bee Hotel Maintenance Day, community garden party, and tips ...

Disclosure Day treats extraterrestrial life as a challenge to faith. It’s not.

All detainees at an immigration detention center in an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades, known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” have been transferred to other facilities, the U.S. Department of ...

When people hear the word "bee," what comes to mind? Hornets, which are dangerous if they sting you. Paper wasps, which build nests under eaves. Or honeybees, which make honey. With reports of ...

(Des Moines) Former Des Moines Public Schools superintendent Ian Roberts is scheduled to be sentenced this week. Roberts has pleaded guilty to one count of making a false statement to gain employment ...

Manvir Singh faces vehicular manslaughter and hit-and-run charges in a Lodi crash. Two people were killed in Tuesday’s crash involving four vehicles on Highway 99. Homeland Security said Singh in jail ...

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