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Some scientists carry on the tradition of eating the animals or plants they study: leeches, tadpoles, 30,000-year-old bison. Darwin did it first, but why do it at all? Call it all-consuming curiosity.

A passionate kiss may make you swoon, but many cultures don't do it, anthropologists say. And some cultures find such lip locks downright disgusting.

A class action claims "gross negligence, apathy and callousness" over what the government says were tainted batches of the company's popular Maggi brand of instant noodles.

Some Republican candidates for president claim they have defunded Planned Parenthood in their states already. But the truth, others say, depends on how you define "defund."

Nicholas Reeves studied laser scans of King Tutankhamen's tomb. He saw what he thinks are clues about other chambers hidden behind gilded frescoes that decorate the tomb.

The Iraqi Interior Ministry says more than two dozen people were killed Thursday. The attack was claimed by the self-proclaimed Islamic State, also known as ISIS.

This is the best time of year to see meteors streak across the night sky. David Greene talks to Alan MacRobert, senior editor at Sky & Telescope magazine, about the annual Perseid meteor shower.

Time essentially ran out on investigations into three sex-crime accusations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. One allegation of rape remains.

Leave it to resourceful Americans to tinker and toy with the royal and ancient game of golf.

Veteran sketch artist Jane Rosenberg has been blasted online for her less-than-flattering depiction of the NFL quarterback during his appearance in a federal court Wednesday.