Orcas Are First Non-Humans Whose Evolution Is Driven By Culture

You could call it a culture shock. Many researchers accept that cultural experiences have helped shape human evolution – and evidence has now emerged that the same ma...

No Middle Ground: The Risks Of Being A Human Rights Defender In India

The middle ground for human rights work throughout India is eroding fast. Social activists, civil society leaders and “right to information” activists—who...

How Worried Should We Be About The 'Nightmare Bacteria' Making Headlines?

 “It’s not that this bacteria is highly transmissible,” said Dr. Emil Lesho, director of WRAIR’s Multidrug-resistant Organism Repository and Su...

FilmOut, San Diego’s LGBT Film Festival, Kicks Off Friday

San Diego’s LGBT Film Festival, FilmOut, kicks off its 18th year Friday at the Observatory in North Park. This year, FilmOut had nearly 900 film submissions that had ...

Video: Zookeepers Killed a Critically Endangered Gorilla After He Grabbed a Four-Year Old at the Zoo

A western lowland male gorilla in the Cincinnati Zoo was killed by keepers on Saturday after he dragged around a four-year-old boy who fell into the animal's enclosure, a z...

Priyanka Chopra, Bond Girl? Nah. She Wants To Be First Female 007

Priyanka Chopra, Bond girl? Not likely - how about Priyanka Chopra, 007? Homegirl says she's not interested unless it's a license to kill. In an interview to Complex magazi...

No 'Joke': Comic Book Movies Aren't For Kids Anymore, And Studios Embrace It

Imagine this narrative of an upcoming R-rated movie: A homicidal maniac escapes captivity, kidnaps a high-ranking city official and subjects him to a litany of extreme degr...

What's Killing The World's Teenagers? Road Accidents, Suicide, Floods

The leading cause of death among teenagers in the U.S. is road accidents — killing nearly 5,000 American kids between the ages of 10 and 19 in 2013.

Suicide a...

Humans Risk Killing Off One-In-Five of All Plant Species

Twenty-one percent of the world’s plant species—essential to food and medicine supplies—are threatened with extinction, according to a report published Tu...