U.S. oil refiners could cut output by as much as 25 percent and the nation's reliance on imported refined products could double in the next two decades if the House version of a climate bill becomes law, the American Petroleum Institute said on Monday.

Batman is the most down-to-earth of all the superheroes. He has no special powers from being born on a distant world or bitten by a radioactive spider.

The future looks bright—maybe too bright. The sun is slowly expanding and brightening, and over the next few billion years it will eventually desiccate Earth, leaving it hot, brown and uninhabitable.

The human mind is a remarkable device. Nevertheless, it is not without limits. Recently, a growing body of research has focused on a particular mental limitation, which has to do with our ability...

In the Republican response to last night's presidential address to a joint session of Congress, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal chided the lawmakers for earmarking "$140 million for something called volcano monitoring."

The net worth of Indonesia's 40 richest men has doubled to $42 billion in the past year, driven in no small part by the growing demand for palm oil, according to Forbes magazine's annual examination of the country's top richest people.

Little about the chemistry of hair coloring has changed since 1909 when a French chemist named Eugene Schuller created the first commercial hair dye. Ammonia has been an ingredient de rigueur for women and men who want to lighten their hair, exposing...

The newest batch of sentries at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor will not have to wear uniforms. But they won't get to clock out for breaks -- and they will be paid in fish. The base near Washington's Puget Sound is slated to receive up to 20 Navy-trained ...

With all the hubbub surrounding the Monday unveiling of Richard Branson's new SpaceShipTwo, billed by Virgin Galactic as "the world's first manned commercial spaceship," some of us began to wonder: What makes a spaceship a spaceship? After all, the...