New Delhi: At the University of California, Santa Barbara, scientists have advanced a long-standing theory of what happened to the woolly mammoths, mastodons and other animals in the Ice Age—not the ...

Every time arctic air drops south, and temperatures plummet well below zero, social media lights up with a scary (and slightly cinematic) rumor called "exploding trees." Videos circulate of loud, ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. — John Seiler was strolling across Virginia Tech's campus with his students Thursday morning when something stopped them in their tracks: a sweet cherry tree with an unusual jagged ...