The so-called “D.C. Madam” apologized to her mother and sister in suicide notes released Monday, telling them she couldn’t bear going to prison for running an elite Washington prostitution ring and saw killing herself as the only...

Colombian officials are probing President Alvaro Uribe’s alleged role in helping to plan a 1997 massacre by right-wing paramilitaries, in which 15 people were killed, Uribe himself said Wednesday.

An unprecedented number of endangered northern right whales were feeding and lounging off the coast of Cape Cod, state and federal officials said.

To research her new book, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, Mary Roach is happy to reveal that she had sex in 4-D ultrasound and personally sampled a vaginal photoplethysmography probe, among other cool stuff.

Edward Lorenz, a meteorologist who became the father of the modern field of chaos theory, died Wednesday of cancer in Massachusetts aged 90, MIT announced Thursday.

A farmer who blamed his wife for not providing him with a child has swapped her for a goat with three kids. Three-times-wed Stoil Panayotov struck a deal with another farmer at a livestock market and handed over his wife in exchange for eight-year-old...

Researchers at the University of Virginia created a mathematical model of how the scents of flowers travel with the wind. The scent molecules produced by the flowers readily bond with pollutants such as ozone, which destroys the aromas they produce. So...

After hearing “You forgot to put the Cover Page on on the TPS report” a hundred times, the inhabitants of cubicle world need to have a little fun. They practically live in these 8 X 8 boxes so everyone needs to add a little of that little touch of...