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By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - Gradually rising sea levels caused by global warming over the past 30 years have contributed to a growing number of disasters along China's coast, state news agency Xinhua said on Wednesday.

By Joseph Milton of Nature magazine A key feature of human childbirth, long thought to be unique to Homo sapiens --the arrival of the baby facing backwards relative to its mother--has been observed in our closest living relatives, chimpanzees.

By Melissa Gaskill of Nature News In April 2010, BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded and sank. [More]

After weeks on standby, robots have been called from the sidelines to help inspect reactor buildings at Japan's damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

FBI aircraft are performing flyover imaging runs of an area on Long Island where local authorities have already discovered 10 sets of human remains .

“Believe it or not, George isn’t at home, please leave a message at the beep.” So what happens when you can’t get George? Some viewers have a tough time.

People may advise you to listen to your gut instincts: now research suggests that your gut may have more impact on your thoughts than you ever realized. Scientists from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and the Genome Institute of Singapore led by Sven Pettersson recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that normal gut flora, the bacteria that inhabit our intestines, have a significant impact on brain development and subsequent adult behavior. We human beings may think of ourselves as a highly evolved species of conscious individuals, but we are all far less human than most of us appreciate.

By Martin Petty BANGKOK (Reuters) - Plans for the first dam across the lower Mekong River are putting Laos on a collision course with its neighbors and environmentalists who fear livelihoods, fish species and farmland could be destroyed, potentially sparking a food crisis. [More]

Dough Boys: “I love OpenTable,” says David Steele (center) of the restaurant Flour + Water, flanked here by his partners David White and chef Thomas McNaughton. | Photograph by Toby Burditt The inevitable push-pull between a platform and its customers. Network Effect: OpenTable CEO Jeffrey Jordan says his service’s attrition rate is “tiny,” less than 1%.

In the second week of November, central Indiana is a patchwork of tawny and black: here a field covered with a stubble of dried corn and soybean plants; a little far

One of the biggest issues of our time is energy: where to get it, how to save it, and how it relates to our climate, food and water.

Forty-eight hours into an attempt to muscle a gusher of oil back into the deep-sea well from which it spewed, the flow of petroleum and gas refused to slow. Screen after screen in a special room at BP's headquarters in Houston showed the oil gushing undiminished, silently witnessed underwater by remotely operated vehicles (ROVs)

This article is Part 3 of an 8 part series. Read Part 2 to learn about Geoffrey Moore’s new book.

By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE (Reuters) - The mounted head of an endangered white rhinoceros and the stuffed remains of a highly endangered snow leopard, remnants of the fortune amassed and lost by an Alaska real-estate titan, have been auctioned off to pay some of his debts, officials said on Monday.

By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE (Reuters) - The mounted head of an endangered white rhinoceros and the stuffed remains of a highly endangered snow leopard, remnants of the fortune amassed and lost by an Alaska real-estate titan, have been auctioned off to pay some of his debts, officials said on Monday. [More]