Bruce Rittmann talked about creating microbial fuel cells that use organic waste to create energy. Read more in using bacteria to make energy from waste.

The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people, who didn't have time to evacuate to higher ground. Now scientists are developing a technology that they say can predict a tsunami before a tsunami even starts.

NASA has announced plans to return to the moon and establish a human presence there. Read more about the inflatable lunar habitat being developed.

12 o'clock a.m. and 12 o'clock p.m. mean different things to different people across the world. It's better to say noon or midnight.

A flower with a fragrance is a flower with a mission. Learn more about the perfumes of flowers.

Ball lightning might be a neutral plasma - a neutral, ionized gas.

You find quicksand in places where there's water flowing underneath sand.

After a mosquito sucks your blood, you're left with a bit of mosquito saliva in your body, and it causes a mild allergic reaction - an itchy, red bump. Read more about the red bump on your mosquito bite.

Trying to determine the location of the Milky Way would be like trying to find your way across a terrain where the landmarks aren't where they appear to be!

As seen from the moon, the Earth waxes and wanes - just as the moon does as seen from our world.