The early-morning blast on Mother's Day was big enough to stop nature itself, if only for a moment.

Off the coast of Hawaii, nearly a kilometre beneath the waves, an active volcano bubbles, spewing heat from beneath the seabed. This is the Lō'ihi Seamount, and NASA is studying it in the hopes of learning more about extraterrestrial life.

20 years ago, Time Magazine put a goateed man and some plants on its cover, declaring a breed of rice would save the world's children.

Human brains are some of the biggest in nature, but it's not altogether clear why that is. A pair of studies are now suggesting a new hypothesis – that a family of genes responsible for building up brain matter has given our endocranial volume (E

By Earth's standards, you could hardly imagine a stranger world than frigid, tiny Pluto. It resides in the far corner of the Solar System at an average of about 4 billion miles from the sun.

For several weeks Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano has been shooting rocks, ash, and plumes of heated gas into the sky. Sooner or later all this activity was bound to have some sort of effect on the local weather.

Dark matter, or at least a portion of it, could be carrying an incredibly weak electrical force - equal to about a millionth of an electron's charge. That's according to data from the Experiment to Detect the Global Epoch of Reionisation Signa

A tiny, 2,100-year-old mummy from ancient Egypt had long been thought to contain the remains of a treasured bird - which would make sense, considering the hawk-themed decorations and small size.

Batteries powered by radioactive materials have been around for more than a century, but what they promise in power they usually lose in bulk.

Climate change is a Chinese hoax. The government has a secret chemtrail spraying program. The Earth is flat and NASA is hiding the truth from us all.

When babies are delivered by Caesarian section, some mothers will opt for a common medical procedure called "vaginal seeding", in which the newborns are swabbed with fluid from the mother's, well, you get it.

This week, three cryptocurrencies - Bitcoin Gold, Verge, and Monacoin - were hit with a rarely-seen cyber attack. The hack, called a 51 percent attack, allowed the hackers to steal about US$20 million, mostly from the Bitcoin Gold ledger.

Surveillance systems that track the locations of cellphone users and spy on their calls, texts and data streams are being turned against Americans as they roam the country and the world, say security experts and US officials.

We haven't found any evidence of life on the 3,730 confirmed exoplanets identified to date. Maybe we've just been looking in the wrong place?

If you want to add a few more years to your life, you might want to try picking up the pace.

The world of wine is vast, and it seems like there are more wineries out there than grapes in a vineyard. As such, finding that perfect bottle of vino can feel like a nightmare.

It is difficult to refer to what dogs, as a collective, like and dislike and how they behave.

You've heard it before: CRISPR has the potential to change our lives for the better. But first, we have to give it a chance.

A rare and endangered blue whale has been spotted in the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea, the Egyptian Ministry of Environment has reported, the first time that the largest of all the animals has been seen in these waters.