During a recent lightning storm, a couple from Canada caught a rare weather mystery on camera. Right from their porch, Ed and Melinda Pardy watched as a lightning bolt struck the land less than a ...

Want to remember things better as you get older? The secret might be surprisingly simple: focus on feeling good.

To celebrate its third year of operations, the powerful space telescope has peered into the heart of an empyrean essence of ...

Canned salmon are the unlikely heroes of an accidental back-of-the-pantry natural history museum – preserving decades of Alaskan marine ecology in brine and tin.

We celebrate our birthdays on the same day each year, but the truth is that different parts of our bodies are aging at ...

The effects of climate change could awaken hundreds of volcanoes worldwide – which in turn could worsen the effects of ...

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Slow-motion earthquakes, as you might guess from the name, involve the release of pent-up geological energy over the course ...

The blue shark ( Prionace glauca) might be more than its name. Scientists investigating the sleek ocean predator's skin ...

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Motes of plastic less than a micrometer across could outnumber larger fragments and particles floating through the oceans to a shocking extent, a new study has discovered.

The second half of July and the early days of August are the perfect time to get outside and look at the night sky.