Lightning is one of nature's most brilliant displays and we mostly understand it, but the rare phenomenon of ball lightning ...

Leopards might not be the largest of the big cats out there, but they're still big cats, just not as big as their American ...

Scientists looking at old gharial fossils from Egypt took a reexamined one that was missing its nose, like the Sphinx, and ...

One of the worst parts about getting older is that your joints will inevitably begin to give you trouble, and you can all but ...

Urine isn't the most pleasant liquid, but it had its uses to the ancient Romans, who used it as a potentially unexpected ...

Nuts are almost always a healthy choice for a snack, but be careful with Brazil nuts. They have so much selenium that eating ...

Scientists studying a strange fish fossil from a Welsh beach resolved a centuries old taxonomic mystery between long-nosed and snout-nosed fish.

In the 1980s, a bacterium was genetically modified to produce more alcohol and some scientists feared that it could wipe out ...

We've known about Roman self-healing concrete for centuries, but thanks to a discovery at Pompeii we may finally know the ...

Enterprising scientists have discovered that women have the smellier farts pound for pound, but men tend to make up for this ...

Colorful pumpkins abound in autumn, with a bit of genetics and specific breeding accounting for the shapes and sizes of all ...