The rapidly growing kangaroo population in Canberra, Australia's capital, has become such a public safety issue that scientists have devised a plan to curb the animals' numbers with a contraceptive pill.

Bubbles of the greenhouse gas, born of global warming, are bursting into the atmosphere in Siberia and making that warming even warmer, scientists say.

Already the most wired country in the world, the Asian country is on a fast track to create intelligent service robots that will integrate into society.

Watch footage of an octopus's fight with a spiny dogfish shark, and discover the culprit behind one aquarium's unusual murder mystery.

Medical examinations confirm that Australian TV personality Steve Irwin died after a stringray pierced his heart during filming.

Weather forecasters have again downgraded their forecast for this hurricane season, this time because of the possibility of a weather phenomenon called El Niño.

Modern-day raptors can kill and eat primates more than twice the birds' body weight, suggesting that ancient eagles could have hunted early humans.