MATLAB, or Matrix Laboratory, is a multi-paradigm numerical computing environment and programming language that's capable of visualizing data as well as quickly developing complex code.

The number of people against vaccinations - aka anti-vaxxers - seems to be growing with every year.

Get a good look at Jupiter's Great Red Spot while you can. The giant storm as we know it today is shrinking, and it might fade into memory within your lifetime.

If there were a competition for the most adorable ocean creature, the dumbo octopus - named for the ear-like fins with which it swims - would be right up there.

Vampire bats are probably not the cuddliest of critters, considering nearly their entire food source consists of blood.

They were called the Taíno, and the Europeans who colonised their land took almost everything away from them.

For centuries, the pyramids of Giza have puzzled researchers - not just their mysterious voids and hidden chambers, but exactly how ancient Egyptians built such impressive structures without modern technology.

In a major study released Thursday, a team of government and university scientists say that the nature of air pollution is changing dramatically as cars become cleaner.

They're the minority the majority is dying to get into. Superagers: older folks aged 80 and beyond whose razor-sharp powers of mental fitness defy their advanced years.

For more than 2,000 years, the terracotta cavalryman statue guarded the tomb of China's first emperor, surviving centuries underneath the ground.

On Campbell Island in the Southern Ocean, some 640 km (400 miles) south of New Zealand, is a single Sitka spruce. More than 275 km from any other tree, it is often credited as the "world's loneliest tree".

There is a great deal of misinformation out there regarding genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

A study on dozens of galaxies within several billion light years of our own has revealed black holes that far exceed our expectations on just how big these monsters can grow.

In the 21st century, misinformation has spread across the internet like a virus, making it harder for people to distinguish fact from fiction.

Regular earthquakes are bad enough. Volcanoes too. But an earthquake swarm at a supervolcano? That really sounds like it could be scary, and scientists say they've just detected such a phenomenon at the site of Yellowstone caldera.

It's a place that almost seems too magical to exist: the world's largest underwater cave, spanning an incredible 347 kilometres (216 miles) of subterranean caverns, discovered in Mexico a month ago.

Cape Town has postponed the date on which it would run out of water - again.

For those of you who struggle to drink the advised eight glasses of water a day, we've got good news: that 'rule' doesn't have to apply to everyone.

The sperm's tail is perhaps one of the most iconic structures among all of the cells in the human body, so it's odd to think there are still some things we don't know about it.

In one of the scariest moments in the movie Jurassic Park, a pair of intelligent Velociraptors, brought back to Earth by man's hubris, defy an assumption about their limitations: They open a kitchen door.

Diets have always gone through fads. The grapefruit diet, Atkins, paleo, Whole30 - like a many-headed weight-loss hydra, just as soon as one falls out of favor, another rises in its place.