NOAA expects an active 2013 Atlantic hurricane season

I'm not a fan of long-term weather projections. But all of the signs that typically make an Atlantic season active are present in 2013.

Your best photos: May 2013 supermoon

To all who shared your images with us ... thank you.

Supermoon and an airplane

May 25-25 supermoon rising over Marikina City, Philippines.

Help at hand for schizophrenics

How can healthy people who hear voices help schizophrenics? Finding the answer for this is at the centre of research conducted at the University of Bergen.

How sustainable is Switzerland?

Even though technology has become more efficient and little stands in the way of a sustainable lifestyle, a new study shows, that even the Swiss are a long way from a 2,000 watt society.

8.3-magnitude earthquake in Sea of Okhotsk, in Russia’s Far East

Emergency agencies in the Far East issued a tsunami warning for Sakhalin and the Kuril islands, but lifted it soon afterwards.

5.7-magnitude earthquake in northern California last night

This is a relatively large quake, even for California, but there are no reports of injuries or damages so far from the May 23, 2013 quake.

A hidden population of exotic neutron stars

Magnetars – the dense remains of dead stars that erupt sporadically with bursts of high-energy radiation - are some of the most extreme objects known in the Universe

May 23 moon over northern Norway

The full moon tonight - May 24-25, 2013 - is a supermoon.

The Ring Nebula’s true shape

The Ring Nebula's true shape - revealed in this composite image made in visible light and infrared - is vastly more intricate than astronomers knew.