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The fiery Leonid meteor shower peaks this weekend. Here's...
Up to 15 "shooting stars" per hour may be visible in dark skies as the Leonid meteor shower peaks Friday and Saturday (Nov. 17 and...
'Time's finally up': Impending Iceland eruption is part...
Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula is now in a new era of volcanic eruptions that will last for up to 500 years, and the building magma...
Yes, we can still stop the worst effects of climate change....
State-of-the-art climate models suggest that we are not committing to decades of additional warming once we stop spewing carbon into...
Tiny, shape-shifting robot could one day be used to perform...
A spider-inspired robot called mCLARI weighs less than a gram and could one day be deployed to aid first responders following a natural...
Elephants give each other names — the 1st non-human animals...
Elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park appear to call to each other with individual names using low, complex "rumbles," a study...
'Magical' Roman wind chime with phallus, believed to ward...
Phallic objects like this were common in the Roman world to ward off evil.
'It's really quite remarkable': An interview with elephant...
In this interview, elephant expert Ross MacPhee explains how the giant animals' tusks record every week of their lives and why their...
Dwarf elephants and shedding mammoths shine at NYC's 'Secret...
A new show on "The Secret World of Elephants" at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City dishes on the evolution and...
