Few countries celebrate Halloween with as much fervor and excitement as the US.  Children and adults alike observe the occasion by dressing in creative costumes, gorging on cand...

Humans have flown to the Moon and may even make it to Mars. But providing clean water to all remains a challenge.  The World Health Organization estimates that one in three peop...

A fish with the body of a shark and the face of a pig may sound like something straight out of a science fiction movie. But that precisely describes the dead shark retrieved fro...

La Palma, one of Spain's Canary Islands, has been feeling the wrath of the Cumbre Vieja volcano since September 19, 2021.  The explosive volcano, which came to life shortly afte...

Many superheroes wear capes. But Batman's imposing floor-length cloak is legendary. The twisting sheath not only adds to the Dark Knight's mystique but also transforms into a ri...

Since landing on Mars on February 18, 2021,  NASA's Perseverance rover has achieved numerous "firsts," including beaming audio sounds from the Red Planet's surface. It also made...

A  collection of 1,000  prehistoric structures dubbed mustatils — the plural form of the Arabic term for rectangles —  scattered across 124,274 miles (200,000 kilometers) in nor...