W ashington’s Mount Adams has seen some pretty unusual activity as of late, the US Geological Survey (USGS) has announced.

Despite the name, it doesn’t just affect freshmen; the start of a new school year will see sophomores, juniors, and seniors ...

R egions of Antarctica are being rapidly “greened” by growing vegetation as our planet warms, suggests a new study. In the ...

The idea goes that you first fill a cup of some variety with water and pop it in the freezer. Once the water is frozen, pop a ...

Dubbed “Dracula” by scientists (for reasons that are about to become obvious), this giant pterosaur was uncovered by ...

Nairobi is about as far south of the equator as Singapore is north, and unsurprisingly, it’s pretty much a mirror image. The shortest day (in June) has 12 hours, 2 minutes, and 51 seconds of daylight.

Still, humpback whale ding-a-lings – which can top out at 3 meters (10 feet) – fall into the category of once seen, never forgotten. As the Pacific Whale Foundation explains, the animals usually keep ...

This galaxy doesn’t seem to possess the fabled population III stars as there is too much chemical complexity, but it has this ...

Solar flares are massive releases of energy from the Sun, associated with sunspots. Sunspots are darker because they are ...

According to most accounts, this fateful date saw more human lives extinguished than any other day in history, with the vast ...

U ndersea investigators have located the wreck of a century-old US Navy destroyer, USS Stewart, that was lost for nearly 80 ...