The family of a 74-year-old Queens man who was mowed down by a hit-and-run driver more than three years ago is happy the ...

Dashiell Hammett mentioned Sam Spade's jutting chin in the opening sentence of his novel, "The Maltese Falcon." Spade's chin ...

Year-long investigation found the group home was at fault. “Our goal is for every consumer to live in an environment of zero ...

Self-driving cars promise safety, but new research shows human attention limits create hidden risks for everyday drivers.

Quoting ‘two Western sources’, an Italian news report claimed that there was no technical defect. But human intervention was ‘almost certainly intentional’, it said.

Cars with self-driving features are supposed to promise a safer and more convenient future. But there's a problem: human brains weren't designed for the strange new role these vehicles demand of us.

Maritime accidents are complex events arising from the interaction of technical, human, and environmental components, and they often develop through a chain ...

A home day care in Iowa will no longer be able to practice after the state’s supreme court ruled that there was child abuse in the death of an infant.

Study finds lion-tailed macaques thriving in human areas, raising concerns over long-term risks and conservation strategies.

Learn how the chin became an evolutionary byproduct that's unique to humans.

More than a decade after the Fukushima nuclear accident forced a mass evacuation, the region remains a ghost town for humans. But when humans go away, wildlife comes right back in. Among the most ...

Domestic pigs bred with wild boar after the nuclear disaster offer lessons in wildlife genetics and invasive species management.