The remote protected area in the western and central Pacific--proposed by U.S. President George W. Bush earlier this week--would be nearly as large as Texas and Alaska combined.
A distant cousin of the famous "bullet cluster" shows the same separation of dark and ordinary matter occurring as its two parent galaxy clusters collide at high speed.
An "exquisitely carved" statue of Roman leader Marcus Aurelius, with lion-skin boots and a feathery beard, has been discovered in an artifact-rich site in Turkey.
Millions of dollars have funded research to eradicate the destructive coffee berry borer, and for years, coffee farmers the world over have been battling the pest with insecticides. But a simple solution may already exist in their own backyards: birds.
Fashion meets nature in Bali, a water-delivery tunnel cuts through the San Bernardino Mountains, and more in our new weekly roundup of nature news photos.
The Pacific goliath grouper, which can grow more than six feet long, is a separate species from its relative the Atlantic grouper, a new genetic study found.
Tentacles of cold gas that mysteriously thrive in the hot region around a distant galaxy may be held together by magnetic fields, a new study suggests.
