While more confusing than the traditional "fire make hot" methods of cooking, you can get your head around how they work.

In recent years, a new danger has emerged in the Darién Gap. This lawless stretch of ungovernable jungle has become a hive of ...

A recent study found that 47 percent of breeding female elephant seals on South Georgia, home to the world’s largest ...

T he coldest place on Earth is the East Antarctic Plateau. In this desolate desert, on July 23, 1983, air temperatures at Russia's Vostok Station plunged to around -89.2°C (-128.6°F), significantly ...

A total of 175 generations of painters followed the same set of rules when depicting the cosmos at Pecos River.

Studying brain scans from nearly 4,000 people across the whole spectrum of human life, from newborns to 90-year-olds, a team ...

According to those who do it, particularly in colder countries, it can promote better sleep. But what does the science say?

Although a recently discovered species overlapped with the famous Lucy, and appears less evolved in many ways, it also shows ...

Your fight or flight response is supposed to be for life or death situations, not answering an email.

The evidence is not visual, as we might expect when we picture lightning. Instead, it is audio recordings from the SuperCam ...

Though the exact length of a "stadia" is unknown, his measurement is thought to be accurate to within one percent of the ...

Still, there was the odd unofficial reprieve given here and there. In 1963, for example, President John F. Kennedy received a ...