Two aerial photographs show a portion of the New Jersey coast before and after Hurricane Sandy.

The Goffin's cockatoo's use and fashioning of objects as tools has rarely been seen in the animal kingdom.

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) helps to show ‘inflation’ in advance of volcanic eruptions in Indonesia.

The UV light that causes snow blindness in humans is life-saving for reindeer in the Arctic.

Some 4.567 billion years ago, our solar system’s planets spawned from an expansive disc of gas and dust rotating around the sun. While similar processes are witnessed in younger solar systems throughout the Milky Way, the formative stages of our own solar system were believed to have taken twice as long to occur. Now, new research lead by the Centre for Star and Planet Formation at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, suggests otherwise. Indeed, our solar system is not quite as special as once believed.

International team observes the most-distant, super-luminous supernovae found to date.

Hurricane Sandy is giving up the ghost on Halloween over Pennsylvania. Satellite views of the hurricane show its life and death over time.

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A new study used computer modelling to shed light on the origin of vision in animals, including humans. Sight may have evolved earlier than previously thought.

A biologist has found that terrestrial hermit crabs have a more self-serving social agenda: to kick another crab out of its shell and move into a larger home.