Semi-autonomous robots communicating with flashes of infrared light could be used to locate victims after a natural disaster.

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will be sequentially aligned and visible at dawn throughout June. The last time this happened was in 2004.

Oxytocin is a naturally-occurring neurotransmitter involved in childbirth and is commonly given to induce labor.

A team of University of North Carolina Wilmington researchers is in Antarctica studying the effects of climate change on crabeater seals 鈥� the most populous marine mammals in the world. WHQR caught up with them before they embarked on their trip.

"We finally have the first look at our Milky Way black hole, Sagittarius A*," an international team of astrophysicists and researchers from the Event Horizon Telescope team said.

Anita sniffs out what's so fascinating about the science of smell 鈥� and gets her mind blown. A psychologist shares why smell is our most emotional sense, plus stories about the mental health consequences of anosmia (losing your sense of smell), and a scent designer describes how to re-create memories through candles.

Bread geeks, take note! The new technique, developed in a lab in Naples, involves the smart application of materials science and physics to make airy, bubbly dough without fermentation.

Mild cognitive impairment, a common brain condition, can be an early sign of Alzheimer's disease. But most people don't know the symptoms. And some may mistake it for normal aging.

The 30-year-old U.S. citizen was trying to smuggle 43 horned lizards and nine snakes in small bags into the United States, officials say.

Richard Watkins has always moved in multiple circles. As a child he was surrounded by college sports and college life. His father was the baseball coach鈥�