Using carbon nanotubules, college students have created the world's smallest Cupid, to eventually be used in nanofilters.

Love can be confusing and heart-wrenching — but it can also be funny!

These adorable pictures are sure to warm even the coldest heart.

American Norwood Thomas traveled to Australia to see his lost love Joyce Morris for the first time since 1945.

Humans like to think of themselves as monogamous, but when it comes to true fidelity, many animals engage in true monogamy.

Researchers think unusually warm waters might be the reason for stranded and starving pups.

California's congested freeways could be a boon for large-scale piezoelectric power generation.

From lush forests to craggy shorelines, America's highways have some postcard-worthy scenes. Here's 10 of them.

Despite its aim to ease a housing crunch and kill congestion, California's Senate Bill 827 has its detractors.

With daylight saving time still in effect across most of the United States and Canada, the sun is now rising at many localities after 7 a.m. local time. That me

As darkness falls tonight, Aug. 9, be sure to take a look low toward the western part of the sky for a beautiful celestial tableau.

Venus will pass between Earth and the sun tomorrow, becoming visible in the early morning hours next week.

For many children, realism isn't really the objective, so we should probably stop looking for that in their art.

New data shows that seniors are more sexually active than ever, leading to a sharp rise in rates of sexually transmitted diseases.

Sex. Many (but not all) animals do it.

A federal judge has ordered the Food and Drug Administration to make the morning-after pill available to teens without a prescription.

Research suggests that long-distance relationships encourage more communication and that couples try harder.

Men now outnumber women in some Scandinavian countries, and scientists are reeling to explain why.

A newly discovered mechanism in the throats of mice works like a supersonic jet engine.

For many wild creatures the line between male and female is decidedly blurry.

A giant whale swam beneath a group of California surfers and it was captured on drone video.

Several environmental organizations join forces to launch a new campaign urging the federal government to adopt a fuel efficiency goal of 60mpg by 2025.

There's a lot to sort out in Libya's post-Gadhafi era, but there should be good news for the American consumer.

A '100% self-supporting housing solution for the post-oil world,' the Oil Silo Home concept makes use of the thousands of oil storage units that will inevitably

A pilot project in Ithaca, N.Y. will rent space in a community freezer for people to store bulk meat purchases.

The melting was part of an annual summer thaw, typical in size and timing for the season.

Arctic sea ice — the ice that freezes and floats on Arctic waters — is thinning at a steadier and faster rate than researchers previously thought.

Eko Atlantic will be the modern face of Nigeria, for better or for worse.

Climate Chronograph is a memorial that sinks as sea levels rise.

Geologists say they have found a range of volcanoes beneath the ice of Antarctica that rival those of east Africa and North America.

A small island in Louisiana where peppers are grown for Tabasco sauce is losing land to rising sea levels.

A report from the Union of Concerned Scientists shows how many coastal cities are vulnerable to chronic flooding — and how many will be underwater.

A newly published study finds that there may be dangerous levels of arsenic in some baby formulas.

Pro-breast-feeding agenda turns NYC hospitals into a "nanny" state. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg launched the Latch On NYC initiative to support mother

Have you ever tasted jarred baby food? It isn’t that good. So why feed it to your little one?

Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, is one of the unlucky 1 to 2 percent of women who suffer from this acute illness during pregnancy.

Hampton Creek does two things, vegan mayonnaise and cookie dough, and it does them well.

A photographer, a body painter, and a pregnant woman team up to show what it looks like inside the womb.

Eco-architect-turned-full-time vintage aluminum trailer renovator Matthew Hofmann reveals an Airstream hotel in beautiful downtown Santa Barbara.

Following a gut rehab, an L.A. homeowner is selling the place where Freddy Krueger met his match for the first, but certainly not the last, time.

Visit Steve Sauer's Seattle apartment, a 182-square-foot storage unit transformed into a cozy dwelling.

Instead of filling a storage space attached to their carport with junk, Craige and Jennifer Walters transformed it into a lovely tiny house for guests.

A design firm best known for its repurposed cardboard creations tries its hand at small-scale adaptive reuse with absolutely gorgeous results.

Explaining this his car 'doesn't need its own little home,' a homeowner converts his garage into a cottage and rents out his main house.

The R.W. Lindholm Residence is the newest, but certainly not the first, Wright-designed structure to be relocated in its entirety.

Health experts argue that banning the preservative could make it difficult for children in developing countries to get life-saving vaccines.

Discussions about the Russian meteor explosion and Earth's encounter with asteroid 2012 DA14 were high on the Feb. 15 agenda of a UN meeting.

A new international effort will monitor potential asteroid threats and examine how to deflect them before they hit Earth.

An early alert system and rapid space launches are two ways that the UN is coordinating with other agencies to deter asteroids.

World leaders can't agree on nixing the leap second, so we’ll just keep adding them until they figure it out.