Studying humanmade seismic waves is useful for a few reasons. It can help engineers construct safer buildings. City planners ...

Virga refers to rain or snow that evaporates before it reaches the ground.

New sensors can map infrasound — a deep-bass thrumming lower than what human ears can hear — emitted by a fire as its flames ...

What is your favorite way to eat a marshmallow? Melted in hot chocolate after a long day of sledding? Or roasted and squished between a slab of chocolate and graham crackers while you are sitting ...

When a human has a sudden need to go number two, they might seek out a bathroom. When mammals in the forests of Costa Rica need to poop, they find a strangler fig. A survey of 169 trees found 11 that ...

When Victoria Glynn was a teen living in Honduras, she enjoyed making art. But that wasn’t her only interest. “Growing up in Central America, I was just surrounded by all of this amazing biodiversity, ...

Meteorites that are billions of years old. Alienlike worms. A blue whale’s massive jaw bones. These are just some of the millions of marvels at the Smithsonian Institution. Most are part of the ...

The roar of 90,000 soccer fans washed over Aurélien Tchouaméni. He was a midfielder on the French national soccer team. After placing the ball on the penalty spot, he tried to steady himself for the ...

Dogs with squished faces may be adorable. But that cuteness can come at a cost to the dogs. Among some breeds with such flattened faces, fewer than 11 percent can breathe easily, a new study finds.

HOUSTON — After five days in space and five decades of waiting, astronauts just got a view of the moon unlike any other. The Artemis II mission’s Orion spacecraft looped around the farside of the moon ...

Throughout history, hunters have coated their dart tips and arrowheads with poison to make them even more deadly. Our prehistoric ancestors, it seems, devised this strategy surprisingly early. A fresh ...

Society has tended to describe adulthood as starting at around 18 to 21. And most people may appear fully adult by then. But such looks can be deceiving. The brain won’t reach its adult form until ...