Hurricanes are some of the deadliest storms on the planet, and scientists predict they'll pack even stronger punches as climate change advances. After forming over tropical oceans, these tempests wreak havoc once they make landfall, bringing with them winds of up to 140 miles (225 kilometers) per hour, storm surges and even tornados...
The North Korean government is touting a controversial rocket launch this weekend as a success, despite indications that it crashed into the Pacific Ocean and never made it into space.
Remember olestra, the zero fat/zero cal fat substitute initially ballyhooed as the way to slim ever-expanding waists that met with a rapid demise when consumers began complaining of an unfortunate side effect called (forgive the graphic imagery) anal leakage?...
More than 90 people are feared dead and tens of thousands are homeless after a magnitude 6.3 earthquake rocked the mountainous Abruzzo region of Italy today.
CHICAGO—Neandertals have long been portrayed as dumb brutes. But a growing body of evidence hints that these extinct humans were much savvier than previously thought.
Baseball, returning to big-league action tonight, is a sport awash in superstition and lore—consider the long-standing Curse of the Bambino, said to have haunted the Boston Red Sox from the time the team sold Babe Ruth to the rival New York Yankees in 1919 until the Sox won a World Series in 2004...
CAREFREE, ARIZ.—What does it mean to be human? A panel of anthropologists at the inaugural Origins Symposium organized by Arizona State University yesterday presented several perspectives—from genetic to cultural to environmental—on where and how the birth of our species occurred...
TEMPE—The first annual Origins Symposium at Arizona State University here began yesterday with a bang—a big bang, that is—as a panel outlined the theoretical and technical challenges of peering still closer to that signal event in the history of the cosmos for clues about the nature and evolution of the universe we know today...
A German researcher who accidentally exposed herself to the dreaded Ebola virus is apparently in the clear: the virus's three-week incubation period expired yesterday, her supervisor tells ScientificAmerican.com ...
There are some 82,000 chemicals used commercially in the U.S., but only a fraction have been tested to make sure they're safe and just five are regulated by the U.S.
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