Before modern weapons of mass destruction, there was Greek fire (ignis graecus). This was the term medieval Crusaders applied ...

Artistic depiction of a potential asteroid impact. Sometime before the end of the decade, a Chinese spacecraft could race toward a small asteroid at roughly nine kilometres per second (about 20,000 ...

Amid extreme heat, Earth records its coldest temperature. Credit: The Weather Network. In the darkness of the Antarctic winter, the thermometer at Concordia Station dropped to minus 84.1 degrees ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. The Aral Sea sits between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and was once the fourth-largest inland body of water on ...

Mars as viewed by Psyche as it continued its mission through the solar system. Credit: NASA. At first, Mars was little more than a curved blade of light suspended in darkness. As NASA’s Psyche ...

Refugee camps for people displaced by Boko Haram conflict. Image credits: EU / Flickr. A trench surrounding a Nigerian military base stopped motorcycle-riding militants from getting inside. So, ...

According to a new study, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has supplied the durable surfaces needed for an accidental ...

Its edge was unusually rounded, enough to make Andrew Birley pause as he knelt inside the remains of a Roman barracks in ...

The bird-fish hybrid could one day be used to study aquatic animals underwater and then fly back to the base with data.

Living nearly 900 meters underwater, this isopod evolved unusual adaptations to thrive in the world’s most food-scarce ...

At a thriving Celtic trading center in western France, metalworkers forged weapons, keys, tools, and fittings for horses.

Humans have cleared forests for thousands of years. Modern deforestation, however, has pushed the world’s forests dramatically out of balance. About 10.9 million hectares of forest (an area roughly ...