Bees seem to be addicted to nectar with traces of nicotine and caffeine rather than plain honey, says a new study.

A massive plunge in global oxygen levels, not freshwater frolicking, could have led to the rise of air-breathing animals, argues a new study.

A day after the Indian government placed an indefinite moratorium on commercial cultivation of Bt Brinjal, US-based firm Monsanto, which owns a stake in the Indian company developing the genetically modified (GM) product, said Wednesday that research on GM crops would continue.

A new study has revealed that there is no evidence that the measles vaccine-given alone or as part of a combined measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine-increases the risk of autism in children.

A team of scientists has developed a new, more efficient low-cost microring resonator for high-speed telecommunications systems.

Scientists, in a new research, have found that some great tit populations are more curious than others because they have a gene related to individual variation in exploratory behaviour.

A major scientific review has indicated that as a result of climate change, the world will become more 'fragrant'.

The results from the highest-energy particle experiments carried out in December at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), popularly known as the "Big Bang Machine", have been published, which indicates that the run created more particles than theory predicted.

Reports indicate that the third national survey on cultural relics in China has revealed more than 700 km of ancient Great Wall in the northwestern part of the country.

A new study by Australian scientists has determined that a global drop in oxygen levels may have been the driver that led ancient fish to leave the water and evolve into the first air-breathing animals on land.