It turns out that a bad neighborhood smells pretty bad–especially when it comes to damaged reefs. Scientists have found that Pacific corals and fish avoid settling in bad regions by sniffing out chemical cues.

Scientists determined a copper awl is the oldest metal object found in the Middle East to date. The awl is believed to date back to the late sixth millennium or early fifth millennium, which is several hundred years earlier than researchers thought people first started using metal the University of Haifa reported.

Consumer Reports is issuing a warning to pregnant women about eating certain kinds of fish. According to researchers, many popular types of fish contain high levels of mercury, which can be dangerous to a fetus or infant.

New research shows that administering the Salk inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) to people who have previously been immunized with the Sabin live-attenuated oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) can boost their immunity against the poliovirus.

An Oklahoma City police officer has been arrested and accused of sexual battery and rape. Daniel Ken Holtzclaw was arrested around 3 p.m. on Thursday after a judge approved a probable cause arrest warrant.

Santa Barbara county health officials have issued an arrest warrant for a 24 year old man who has tuberculosis but stopped taking his prescription. The officials have declared that the man poses a community health hazard.

New research indicates that the cause of the global warming ‘pause’ is trapped deep in the Atlantic Ocean. Researchers from the University of Washington (UW) say that heat from the surface is plunging nearly a mile down in the north and south Atlantic, affecting the balance between incoming heat and heat radiated back into the atmosphere, writes Nature World News.

Authorities located the body of a Russian student who went missing several days ago at Grand Teton National Park at around 1:30 P.M. on Friday.

A former teacher at a Montana Catholic school who was fired for being pregnant and unmarried is suing the school district.

The RCMP have arrested four people in connection with illegally importing 37.5 kilograms of cocaine after intercepting three shipments of the drug at Toronto Pearson International Airport earlier this month.

A Chicago purse snatcher’s selfie earned him a jailhouse mug shot, authorities said.