Researchers tracked a prescribed grassland fire using infrasound, sound waves pitched too low for people to hear.

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The world’s most powerful particle accelerator has gone quiet. Particles took their last spin around the Large Hadron Collider on December 3 before scientists shut the machine down for two years of ...

To expand the periodic table, it might be time to go titanium. A new study lays the groundwork to expand the periodic table with a search for element 120, to be made by slamming electrically charged ...

Ancient mammals may have had an easier time moving across the Isthmus of Panama from north to south thanks to Mexico’s ...

A diet rich in the amino acid arginine might help the immune system fend off cancer and infection.

A protein that is a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease may also ID a brain condition associated with head trauma in contact ...

Climate change is helping Atlantic hurricanes pack more of a punch, making them rainier, intensifying them faster and helping the storms linger longer even after landfall. But a new statistical ...

A canopy call, a partial photo and DNA revealed a new primate species — one that may already be at risk of extinction.

The inferno that sent toxic smoke billowing toward the United States won't be the last. Officials are now battling both the ...

Nearly 4,000 common variations in DNA are known to affect height, with each one nudging stature up or down a millimeter or so. But a gene variant found in almost 5 percent of Peruvians reduces height ...

But a new documentary series tells a different story: one about survivors. Pompeii: Out of Time, hosted by actor Tom ...