For the second time in just over a decade, a massive earthquake has struck Haiti. Why are these earthquakes so devastating in Haiti? ...read more

Two enormous spikes of melting hit the Greenland Ice Sheet in July. But copious snow cover from earlier in the summer blunted the impact. ...read more

Tending illegal gardens on public or private property can spark ideas about how to manage local land ...read more

That honey found stored in an ancient Egyptian tomb? Yeah, it's still good to eat. ...read more

A sound engineer and psychologist explains the psychoacoustics behind the noises that make our skin crawl. Nails on a chalkboard, we're looking at you. ...read more

In India, around 2,000 people are killed by lightning annually, but international efforts to reduce the toll may be paying off. ...read more

But even more significant than the warmth was weather and climate mayhem on an epic scale. ...read more

Artificially intelligent systems manage to avoid danger without any role for feeling pain, so why do we have to? ...read more

On August 13, 1521, the capital city of Tenochtitlan fell after a two-month siege — a victory that marked the end of an empire. But five hundred years later, researchers are giving stories surrounding the events another look. ...read more

With the right conditions and a bit of luck, some of the most inhospitable worlds in the universe could still be habitable. ...read more