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The chain fountain video is amazing
It's looks like a magic trick, but it's really a problem in the physics of everyday things.
March 6, 2014
Another asteroid flies through Earth-moon system on Thursday
For the second time in two days, an asteroid is sweeping safely through the Earth-moon system. How to watch online.
March 6, 2014
Where in the U.S. you’re most likely to be struck by lightning
One moment you're strolling across the golf course. The next moment your body is wracked with the searing pain of 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
March 6, 2014
Lightning, seen from space
NASA routinely studies lightning space to aid in weather forecasting. A new instrument is being planning for a 2016 launch.
March 6, 2014
Watch online as asteroid sweeps within moon’s distance today
Watch online as asteroid 2014 DX110 sweep closer than the moon on Wednesday, March 5.
March 5, 2014
Rising seas threaten world cultural sites, says study
Statue of Liberty, Independence Hall, Tower of London and Sydney Opera House are among sites that could be lost to rising seas if current global warming trend continues.
March 5, 2014
Who will live to be over 100?
Centenarians like world's oldest person Misao Okawa, who is 116 on March 5, epitomize our fears about growing old, says aging researcher Avi Roy
March 5, 2014
Horses found competing with endangered pandas for bamboo
At the Wolong Nature Reserve for endangered pandas, horses belonging to farmers were found grazing on bamboo, the pandas' only food source.
March 5, 2014
Did first Americans live thousands of years on Bering Land Bridge?
A flurry of studies suggests that this lost world could have been an ice age haven, dotted with game and wildflowers, for both animals and humans.
March 4, 2014
Major winter storm poised to wallop U.S. Mid-Atlantic
Large amounts of snow to cities including Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C. area on March 2 and 3, according to NOAA's National Weather Service.
March 2, 2014
