Hawaii rarely sees direct hurricane hits—if Lala strengthens, it will be just the third recorded hurricane to make landfall ...

This state, which has seen more than 200 twisters this year, could beat Texas’s all-time record of 244 tornadoes in 12 months ...

Record-breaking rain in Japan’s Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, has killed at least eight people and sparked widespread ...

What the mathematics of billiards can tell us about loving and letting go A mathematician may have solved a 250-year-old ...

The suspect in the recent shooting of a UnitedHealthcare CEO reportedly had spondylolisthesis, a condition that causes the vertebrae to go out of alignment In spondylolisthesis, spinal vertebrae slip ...

A new study of the Helix Nebula shows a never-before-seen detail of how dying stars recycle elements. Researchers found it by ...

Planetary nebulae like the Lion Nebula are glowing shells surrounding a dying star, or white dwarf, at their center. The ...

Researchers have nailed down an elusive quantity called baryon number, which may be responsible for the cosmic mismatch between matter and antimatter ...

The vagus nerve is a both underappreciated and incredibly powerful instrument of the body. Researchers have long known that ...

This storm, a rarity for this part of the Pacific, is expected to bring heavy rains, strong wind and possibly “life-threatening flooding” to Hawaii this weekend ...

Andy Green holds the overall land speed record, having hit 763.035 miles per hour while driving a jet-powered vehicle in 1997 ...

Four words in a Hank Green video—“I appreciate the pushback”—were enough to make some viewers suspect the voice of artificial ...