If your phone breaks, it's impossible to fix it yourself. The reason for that lies with a set of laws that emerged decades ago.

Jupiter’s Ganymede — has a unique and inexplicable magnetic field. New research could finally explain it: the moon is heating up.

This funerary shroud was made from thousands of multicolored beads and woven to represent a human face and a large scarab ...

People with a rare genetic disorder that damages the amygdala are helping neuroscientists rethink how the brain shapes fear, ...

Bizarre Venus surface formations (or coronae) are likely key to understanding our twin planet's heretofore inscrutable ...

Cephalopods are members of a class of marine animals that includes octopuses, squid, cuttlefish and nautiluses. The group includes more than 800 species (and new species are still being found), ...

In all, 75% of Earth's species went extinct, including the nonavian dinosaurs. So how did some animals ‪—‬ including species ...

Why it's incredible: The passage is one of the world's most dangerous ocean crossings. The Drake Passage is an ocean channel between the southern tip of South America and the West Antarctic Peninsula.

Klyuchevskoy volcano in eastern Russia began erupting shortly after a powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake and several aftershocks shook the same area. "A descent of hot lava is observed on the western ...

We liked testing the Levoit Sprout Evaporative Humidifier — it is whisper-quiet, child-safe and easy to maintain, and it has ...

A "foundational" study found that the brains of children with ADHD matured later, but that finding was likely a mirage tied to issues with how the children were followed over time.

One of Australia's biggest and deadliest spiders is actually three different species, researchers discover — and one of these behemoth arachnids is even bigger than the rest. Sydney funnel-web spiders ...