Perry Samson was helping students conduct field experiments on supercell storms in Kansas in 2008 when one suddenly turned into a tornado and dragged him in.

Once a thriving sardine fishing island, today Aoshima is home to roughly 80 cats and just a handful of people who look after ...

Scientists discovered that making a very small change to female mice's DNA caused them to develop male reproductive organs.

A genomic analysis of dozens of ancient Korean skeletons revealed a special "sacrificial caste" of people. About 1,500 years ...

Amid drought and heat waves, April's national wildfire forecast shows that nearly the entire Western U.S. will face an ...

The "8-real" coin ("real de a ocho" in Spanish and the original pirate "piece of eight") was minted out of silver in the 16th ...

NASA is gearing up to send astronauts back to the lunar environment for the first time in nearly 55 years. We've broken the ...

It's a running joke that a cure for type 1 diabetes is only five years away and has been for 50 years, but new stem cell trials and immune drugs hint that we're closer than ever to a functional cure ...

CERN scientists transported antimatter by truck for the first time, enabling ultraprecise studies that could reveal why ...

Doctors reported a highly unusual case of parasitic fly infection in a woman in Greece. When you purchase through links on ...

A new analysis of archival Hubble Space Telescope photos reveals that a peculiar comet slowed its spin before fully reversing ...

Scientists have cured type 1 diabetes in mice, without long-term immune suppression. In type 1 diabetes, the immune system ...