Oceans are absorbing the extra heat from greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, and that’s giving tropical cyclones a boost of energy.
Grab a g-suit and experience what it’s like to fly in a jet aircraft
Devil rays are mysterious sea creatures that are rarely seen in the wild. With their population dwindling, biologists are racing to learn more about these rays before they disappear.
To prevent mega-wildfires from spiraling out of control, technicians set landscapes ablaze on purpose.
Between 2000 and 2013, 26 explosions the size of nuclear bombs were caused by asteroids. That's 3 to 10 times more common than we thought.
During the mission, four men and two women lived apart from the rest of planet Earth and could eat only shelf-stable foods and some lab-grown vegetables.
A new roadmap to where water exists on the surface of the moon could potentially offer resources to astronauts as drinking water or to produce fuel.
Caltech researchers have developed robots from a single strand of DNA that could one day work inside the body to deliver medicine.
Modular robot swarms with mergeable nervous systems can autonomously combine and separate themselves to form bodies of different shapes and sizes.
Speaking at the the company's new campus in Cupertino, Apple CEO Tim Cook called the iPhone X "the biggest leap forward since the original iPhone."
The US National Hurricane Center warned Maria will likely remain an extremely dangerous Category 4 or 5 hurricane as it nears British and US territories in the Caribbean.
A pair of reports argue that the odds of achieving the most ambitious goal of the Paris agreement of climate change — keeping temperature rise to just 1.5 degrees Celsius — may have gone from impossible to very difficult.
The painful experiment reveals the voltage and current of an electric eel and is helping researchers better understand electromotive forces.
Brain signals are recorded with an electroencephalogram worn on the head like a swim cap, which allows the wearer to select musical notes and tones displayed on a computer screen.
Eighty-two percent of residents living in shantytowns along the US-Mexico border reported suffering from at least one chronic illness — three times the average among American adults.
Having joint hypermobility might be a fun party trick, but do you know what it does to your body?
Neanderthals were brainer than modern humans, and new research helps to explain how these early hominids evolved so much brain power.
The growing field of "serious games" is trying to tap the unique power of gaming to boost sexual IQ and encourage smart choices in real life.
American adolescents are engaging in fewer adult behaviors than they did in past decades, according to a study of data gathered from millions of youths.
