The 150-pound Raptorex “was running things down, dispatching them with its powerful jaws, and clutching them with its two-fingered hands”—the same hunting strategy that apparently worked for 6-ton T. rex.

Dick Cheney and others oppose a decision to review interrogations that may have overstepped even more lenient legal guidance of Bush-administration lawyers.

The already unwieldy debate over US healthcare reform grew stranger and darker this week, drawing in British physicist Stephen Hawking, “death panels”, guns and Nazi Germany.

A pre-eminent black Harvard University professor and the white police sergeant who arrested him for disorderly conduct in his own home sat down last night for a beer with Barack Obama, the US president, to discuss the incident that has sparked intense debates on race relations.

As the recession forces Americans to put off purchases, from shoes to electronics they are also asking more from what they already own.

A total solar eclipse that darkened much of Asia on July 22 was the 21st century’s longest and gave scientists and sky-watchers an observational bonanza

Although the Uighur cause, which she has spent a lifetime championing, is finally drawing the global attention she believes it has always deserved, Rebiya Kadeer has yet to see any gains.

Merging galaxies that forcefully eject supermassive black holes have theoretically created a class of “rogue” objects—and now scientists think they know how to find them.

The Mississippi River Delta is drowning, according to new research that predicts the surrounding coastline will be significantly reshaped in coming decades.

“There’s just not enough sediment to sustain the delta plain,” said the study’s author.