A Utah woman is recovering from four hours of surgery after a car-sized boulder crashed through her bedroom wall while she slept.

Scientists provide insight into why unrelated chimpanzees co-operate with each other outside a sexual relationship.

A magistrate in Australia dismisses charges against a man fined for letting his goat eat flowers and grass outside a museum in Sydney.

Earlier action can cut the impact of environmental threats in Europe but "bureaucratic silos" are causing delays, a report suggests.

Glaciers in the tropical Andes have shrunk by an average of 30-50% since the 1970s, according to a study.

UK scientists demonstrate how DNA could be used to archive digital data, encoding Shakespeare's sonnets and other information in the "life molecule".

A genetic study indicates the ability to thrive on the starchy food leftovers of early farmers was a key step in the domestication of dogs from wolves.

Controversial research into making bird flu easier to spread in people is to resume after a year-long pause.