North Carolina State University researchers have come up with a new technique for improving the connections between stacked solar cells, which should improve the overall efficiency of solar energy devices and reduce the cost of solar energy production.

Gabrielle is the seventh named storm of the 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season. Fortunately, the system is weak and will not last long after pounding Puerto Rico on Friday.

The tornado that struck El Reno, Oklahoma on May 31, 2013 has been reclassified from an EF-5 to a EF-3 tornado. Why?

Unlike volcanoes that emerge from collision zones between tectonic plates, hotspot volcanoes form in the middle of the plates.

A tiny club at the end of a long fishing line-type appendage resembles the movements of small marine organisms. The squid attracts its prey, then attacks.

A new Dartmouth study links an abrupt global change to a colder, dryer climate 12,900 years ago to the impact of an asteroid or comet in Quebec

Gardiner’s frogs from the Seychelles islands, one of the smallest frogs in the world, do not possess a middle ear with an eardrum yet can croak themselves, and hear other frogs.

Smoke from the Rim Fire choked Yosemite National Park during the busy Labor Day Weekend. The smoke is thick, entirely blocking the view of the ground from space. From the ground, the smoke obscured Yosemite’s normally pristine views.

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck near Adak, Alaska earlier today (August 30, 2013). No immediate reports of injuries or serious damage. No tsunami warning.

Hidden for all of human history, a 460 mile long canyon has been discovered below Greenland's ice sheet.