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Science has taken another step toward delivering the perfect newborn – or at least a bouncing baby free of certain genetic defects.

Researchers for Conservation International Indonesia (CII), Papua State University and the Regional Technical Implementing Unit (UPTD) found that the grounding of the 295-foot Caledonian Sky cruise ship — which weighs 4,200 tons and carried 102 passengers – caused massive damage to several endemic reefs that were unique to Raja Ampat, a remote and idyllic island chain in the west of Indonesia's Papua province.

A new study says eating like a caveman depends on the location of the cave.

An earthquake fault running from San Diego Bay to Los Angeles is capable of producing a magnitude-7.4 earthquake that could affect some of the region's most densely populated areas, according to a study released Tuesday.

Rabbit hole leads to an incredible secret – the entrance to a mysterious cave network used by the Knights Templar 700 years ago.

The discovery of a new and rarely seen nebula 10 billion light-years away has created a cosmic mystery: What is lighting up this dusty cloud of gases?

A rabbit hole in the UK conceals the entrance to an incredible cave complex linked to the mysterious Knights Templar.

A 50-year-old ‘giant tusker’ elephant was killed by poachers in Kenya, leaving only 25 surviving in the wild.

It's a question that has bedeviled kindergartners, and now apparently PhDs have the answer: Why do giant pandas have spots?

Mars isn't particularly habitable to humans at the moment, but NASA's latest brainstorm could one day bring back the planet's beaches—or at least some of its oceans, Engadget reports.

How hot are Earth's scorching insides?

Archaeologists in Mosul have made a stunning find beneath the Tomb of the Prophet Jonah that was destroyed by Islamic State militants in 2014: the long-hidden palace of ancient Assyrian King Sennacherib.

While the story of The Neva is well known throughout Alaska, the location of the shipwreck and how the survivors endured in that rugged landscape with little more than what was in their pockets has remained a mystery for over two centuries.

When a spate of unexplained deaths among the famous swimming pigs of the Bahamas made headlines last week, one of the wilder theories was that tourists were getting them drunk on alcohol in fatal quantities.

Close call!

It may have been one of the world’s largest oil spill disasters but the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico appears to have had little effect on the ecosystem as dozens of new species of animals are living in the body of water.

On Wrangel Island off Siberia, a small group of woolly mammoths managed to survive for some 6,000 years after the mainland mammoths died off.

Hot gas streaming out from the region around supermassive black holes can experience rapid and extreme changes in temperature.

They eat every egg in sight.

A rare clouded leopard's birth at the Nashville Zoo marks a milestone that could help rebuild the mysterious Asian cat's population, officials said Thursday.