Under current guidelines, the planet is on target to warm up by 2 degrees Celsius in 2050 and by 4 degrees in 2100, triggering serious large-scale problems by the end of the century. UC San Diego's climate scientist V. Ramanathan accurately predicted this trend back in 1980. He says that if we make an effort to adopt existing technology today, we might be able to change our course on climate.

Phobos will likely slowly lose orbit and be shredded into pieces that will surround the red planet.

The advance could be an important new step in the effort to satisfy the world’s need for clean water.

Study finds the birds are uncommonly good at distinguishing cancerous breast tissue from normal .

An insulin pill in development shows early promise as a novel form of diabetes therapy.

Vigorous exercise and other healthy lifestyle habits appear to have lifesaving benefits.

These five tips from scientists will help you in the kitchen this holiday season.

Predicting intensity, impact of this winter’s El Niño is complicated by unprecedented confluence of weather anomalies.

U.N. World Toilet Day, Nov. 19, highlights global sanitation shortfalls and their toll on human health and the environment.

More women than ever before are running the state's largest public firms, but they still hold just one in eight of the senior executive and director positions in corporate California. 

Atlantic Philanthropies funds UCSF and Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, to stem the precipitous rise in dementia by training and connecting a new generation of leaders worldwide.

Even tots younger than 2 can tell when someone's trying to pull a fast one.