Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using funding from the U.S. National Science ...

The oldest evidence of wildfire in the world can be found in a laboratory on the fourth floor of a brick building in Waterville, Maine. To the untrained eye, it looks like a speck of black lint, not ...

A series of slowly widening fissures in southern Ethiopia once again drew the attention of scientists and authorities to one ...

Iran's Hormuz Island briefly turned bright red this week, as red soil flowed into the sea and turned the water shades of deep crimson. Viral videos captured the moment pouring rain along the coast ...