The public’s response to the widest tornado ever recorded suggests earlier warnings need to be done right.
‘Infested’ captivates with stories about the bloodsucking insects. Resurgent in many areas in the United States, bedbugs are the fastest-growing moneymaker in pest control.
A stunning photograph from the International Space Station captures the size and power of Typhoon Maysak, which clamored through the Western Pacific.
For this spider, extreme motherhood ends with a fatal family feast.
Curiosity has explored Mars for over two and a half years. What if NASA's rover kept a scrapbook?
Meteorologists are throwing new technology at the problem of weather forecasting to provide faster and more precise predictions of the coming weather.
The most old-fashioned fungus-growing ant yet discovered grows a startlingly new-fangled crop.
Coral trout are thriving in marine protected areas in the Great Barrier Reef, but the no-take zones are having a smaller effect on other reef residents, a new 10-year report card shows.
A proposed acoustic topological insulator made of an array of spinning metal rods would channel sound waves in one direction along its edge, preventing any sound from bouncing away.
Supernovas might sweep the remaining gas out of a galaxy after a supermassive black hole triggers the end of star formation.
New analysis puts people at a contested Greek site about 206,000 years ago.
The sinking Izanagi tectonic plate may have rerouted the mantle flow beneath the Pacific, halting the Hawaiian hot spot.
Study suggests Lucy’s species had a South African foil nearly 3.7 million years ago.
Pacific Northwest man who lived 9,000 years ago ate from an almost entirely seafood menu, a new analysis finds.
Blind rats can learn to navigate with a compass and microchip prosthetic wired into their brains. Similar devices may one day help humans have super senses.
Fountains of gas erupt from a young massive star, giving astronomers a play-by-play on how stellar heavyweights form.
Early male members of the human genus spent a lot of time together by the water, as their footprints attest.
Subatomic particles made of quarks can bind together to form molecules, according to a computer simulation of a long-studied mysterious particle.
Among monogamous mound-building mice, the more closely mates match in a tendency toward anxiety, the sooner they start having babies
Western Canadian glaciers will shrink 70 percent by 2100, a detailed melting simulation suggests.
Brontosaurus belongs in a genus separate from Apatosaurus, a new study proposes.
Inflammation-dampening genes fight oxidants and promote longer life spans.
Contrary to recent studies, the old notion that butterfly wing eyespots evoke predator eyes may not be so old-fashioned after all.
Abundances of cyanide compounds around a young star match those found in comets in our solar system.
Bones of a new terror bird confirm the creatures used their beaks to hatchet their prey but also raise questions about what drove the birds extinct.
Moon dust didn’t swallow spacecraft as was suggested in the 1960s. Successful exploration since that has changed our view of the moon.
Three museum exhibits allow visitors to explore 18th century botanical art, natural disasters and robots.
A test to detect genetic problems such as Down syndrome examines a baby’s DNA in the mother’s blood and may limit the need for more invasive screening.
