By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A fossil finger bone dating back about 90,000 years that was unearthed in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud Desert is pointing to what scientists are calling

By Ludwig Burger FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany’s Bayer <BAYGn.DE> plans to sell its digital farming business to BASF <BASFn.DE> as part of changes to concessions it has offered to win

By Stephen Addison (Reuters) – Stephen Hawking, who sought to explain some of the most complicated questions of life while himself working under the shadow of a likely premature death,

RAMON CRATER, Israel (Reuters) – A team of six Israeli researchers on Sunday ended a four-day Mars habitat experiment in Israel’s Negev desert where they simulated living conditions on the

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If you are not a fan of spiders, you may not like the creepy little arachnid scientists found entombed in chunks of amber from

By Paul Lienert (Reuters) – Self-driving car pioneer Sebastian Thrun has shifted his gaze to the skies, as his Silicon Valley online school Udacity launches what it calls the first

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Nearly half of humans believe in alien life and want to make contact, a survey in 24 countries has found, in what researchers said helps to explain

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The oldest and most distant black hole ever observed — a celestial brute 800 million times more massive than the sun — is providing

By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) – Researchers announced the launch of two big studies in Africa on Thursday to test a new HIV vaccine and a long-acting injectable drug, fuelling

(The November 20 story corrects paragraph 11 to show data is from Yamato Clinic, not OECD.) By Megumi Lim and Kim Kyung-Hoon TOKYO (Reuters) – After he was diagnosed with