Science

Physicists are now almost certain the curious “Higgs-like particle” revealed at CERN last year is a Higgs boson.

A rain of spiders was recorded on Feb. 3 in Santo Antonio da Platina, Brazil.

More than 200 million years ago, a massive extinction decimated 76 percent of marine and terrestrial species, marking the end of the Triassic period and the onset of the Jurassic.

“Overfishing of sharks is now recognized as a major global conservation concern, with increasing numbers of shark species added to the IUCN’s list of threatened species.”

U.S. researchers have captured individual protons and antiprotons to measure their magnetic charge with unprecedented accuracy.

It may seem somewhat intuitive, but learning through observation is one of the most potent ways humans learn a new skill.

The giant cyclone spinning around the south pole of our neighboring planet is far more unpredictable than scientists realized, according to a new Spanish study.

A red dwarf star and a black hole are orbiting each other once every 2.4 hours, a new record for the fastest-spinning black-hole X-ray binary system ever found.