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Researchers said Thursday they had identified the remains of Nicolaus Copernicus by comparing DNA from a skeleton and hair retrieved from one of the 16th-century astronomer's books.

Paving over front gardens and planting exotic ornamental plants could be contributing to the decline of one of Britain's best known birds, conservationists have warned.

China's dairy industry _ at the center of the country's worst quality scandal in years _ will undergo a major shake-up to improve safety at every step, from cow breeding to milk sales, the government said Thursday.

The overhaul will cover all aspects of the dairy supply chain, including production, purchase, processing and sales within the next year, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

'The crisis has put China's dairy industry in peril and exposed major problems existing in the quality control and supervision of the industry,' an official with the National Development and Reform Commission, China's top economic planning body, was quoted as saying by Xinhua.

A former Philippine agriculture official testified Thursday that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was never involved with a government fund worth millions of dollars that she is accused of dipping into to ...

King Herod may have been buried in a crypt with lavish Roman-style wall paintings of a kind previously unseen in the Middle East, Israeli archaeologists said Wednesday.

Scientists for the first time have unraveled much of the genetic code of an extinct animal, the ice age's woolly mammoth, and with it they are thawing Jurassic Park dreams.

Online dating service eHarmony is adding another personality trait to its 29 dimensions of computability.

Katy Phiri, who is in her 70s, picks up single corn kernels spilled from trucks that ferry the harvest to market. She says she hasn't eaten for three days.

Rebecca Chipika, a child of 9, prods a stick into a termite mound to draw out insects. She sweeps them into a bag for her family's evening meal.

These scenes from a food catastrophe are unfolding in Doma, a district of rural Zimbabwe where journalists rarely venture. It's a stronghold of President Robert Mugabe's party and his enforcers and informants are everywhere.

A strong earthquake of 6.2 magnitude and at a depth of 30 miles struck Panama near the Costa Rica border overnight, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Wednesday.

Nov. 18 - A team of archeologists from Argentina has found more than 300 dinosaur tracks in the Bolivian village of Icla.

The Oklahoma pecan crop is expected to be down significantly this year because of last year's ice storm, spring rains and a biological quirk of pecan trees.

A long struggle over what kind of milk counts as organic is coming to a head. The Department of Agriculture has issued draft rules for organic milk that would require that the cows be on pasture at least half ...

Nestle Prepared Foods Company, a Springville, Utah, establishment, is recalling approximately 879,565 pounds of frozen chicken meals that may contain foreign materials, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food ...

You've heard the saying a mind over matter.' Now a new study gives that phrase some scientific backing.

U.S. Sugar Corp. is hoping that the waste it creates during sugar production can one day be used to fuel cars.

For a decade, the National Park Service has known that the 3,000-foot granite cliff hanging over a tourist village at Yosemite is susceptible to colossal rockslides like one last month that crushed cabins and ...

Some 691,000 children went hungry in America sometime in 2007, while close to one in eight Americans struggled to feed themselves adequately even before this year's sharp economic downtown, the Agriculture ...

TEMECULA, Calif. - A moderate earthquake struck early Monday in a remote area of the Cleveland National Forest in northern San Diego County.

Flooded country roads. Roving packs of dogs with no owners in sight. Overgrown weeds as far as the eye can see.

Leaving Southern California for the sprawling Midwest plains had seemed a no-brainer for Dale and Marilyn Johnson, retired occupational therapists who moved to Fort Scott, Kan., last year to be closer to their daughter and five grandchildren. The 22-acre farm they now call home was a return of sorts for Dale Johnson, 68, who lived on a northern Wisconsin farm as a boy.

But their dreams of an idyllic retirement surrounded by five dogs, two birds, one cat, four llamas, a goat and a donkey were quickly tempered by a glaringly obvious reality: The couple barely knew a lick about how to navigate rural life.

Alberta surgeons aren't always following guidelines aimed at minimizing the risk patients will develop an infection as a result of their surgery, a new survey reveals.