After eight years, a Twinkie in Colin Purrington's basement "was chewy, unsweet, and smelled like rotting ginkgo fruit," he...

LAKE CHARLES, La. -- That first drive through Lake Charles after Hurricane Laura had been a gut punch. Trinette Thomas felt a barrage of surprise and despair as she strained to absorb the destruction surrounding her and imagine the lengths it would take to stagger back. Then, another storm hit.The shock subsided quickly, replaced by the tedium and exasperation that accompany the slog toward...

Halley's Comet left behind a trail of dust that Earth plows through each year, producing a display of shooting stars and, sometimes,...

Should you cut fat or carbs from your diet to lose weight? Are all calories equal? Here are some of the most common weight loss myths,...

A NASA spacecraft descended Tuesday toward the surface of an asteroid 200 million miles away to collect a handful of rubble for return to Earth. The Osiris-Rex spacecraft dropped out of orbit around asteroid Bennu right on time, beginning a 4 1/2-hour plunge to the rough, boulder-covered face of the ancient space rock. It was America's first attempt to gather samples from an asteroid, something...

By extracting DNA from the thigh bone of an ancient saber-toothed cat, scientists gleaned new insights into how these creatures stalked their...

As the coronavirus pandemic erupted this spring, two Stanford University professors -- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Dr. Scott W. Atlas -- bonded over a shared concern that lockdowns were creating economic and societal devastation.Now Atlas is President Donald Trump's science adviser, a powerful force inside the White House. And Bhattacharya is one of three authors of the Great Barrington...

Nasa says fast meteors can also become fireballs as Earth passes through tail of Hayley’s...

Climate change and human activity are harming Antarctica and threatening wildlife from humpback whales to microscopic algae, more than 280 scientists and conservation experts say in urging protections for the icy region. The coalition - all women - called for creating a new marine protection area around Antarctica, as governments on Monday began a two-week meeting of the Commission for the...

Young people are less satisfied with democracy and more disillusioned than at any other time in the past century, especially in Europe, North America, Africa and Australia, a study by the University of Cambridge has found. Millennials, or those born between 1981 and 1996, are more disillusioned than Generation X, those born between 1965 and 1981, or Baby Boomers born between 1944 and 1964 and the...

Osiris-Rex will make the briefest of contacts with Asteroid Bennu to try to pick up rock...