Amazon damage rises, heat wave roasts U.S., new proof of 'multiverse,' and more.

The Hudson's Bay Company is established, and Centralia residents fight eviction.

An American Airlines catering cart at Chicago's O'Hare Airport goes wild.

SkyBridge, North America's longest pedestrian suspension bridge, opened earlier this year in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. And now it's ready for Christmas.

Residents of Bougainville voted overwhelmingly to become independent from Papua New Guinea.

New Zealand opened its 10th Great Walk called Paparoa Track, a 3-day, 34-mile hike across beautiful terrain.

England's Lake District National Park, the U.K.'s most popular national park, offers unforgettable hikes and views.

It's hard to get a read on Polaris because it's too bright for our equipment. Plus, other cool facts about the North Star.

Researchers pored over historical accounts to crack the case of a 1,400-year-old light show.

Mark your calendars now for the Great North American Eclipse of April 8, 2024.

Your aging parent may prefer living in a tiny house in your backyard.

If you have teenage drivers and are trying to live within your means, here are a few tips for keeping insurance costs down.

​No matter how practiced we are at managing our money, it’s never too late to learn new hacks. Try these 10 tips to revamp some of your financial habits.

The best strategy to minimize student loan debt is to search for affordable colleges. Yes, it’s complicated, but here’s what to know.

Common questions parents aren’t asking their dentist about their children's teeth and gums, but should be.

Take a look at the nutritional benefits of 5 popular tree nuts, and you'll realize nuts are a great snack!

Aflac employee and Auburn alumnus rallies colleagues to raise more than $70,000 for boy with leukemia.

An Aflac CSR Hero volunteers to instill a sense of purpose and confidence in New Hampshire children who need it most.

Sea slugs could tell us a lot about why we fall into a food coma.

It's not just that your mom encourages second helpings. Studies show that a phenomenon called "social facilitation" is one factor in why we overeat with others.

A new study seeks to define what a 'hyper-palatable' food is, and how they're specifically designed to make us eat more than we should.

The holiday season is a weighted one, full of food and food-pushers. Here's how to gently, but firmly, stand your ground.

With careful planning and strategic shopping, you can prep a week's worth of soup so that getting dinner on the table isn't so hard.

Sneak preview of National Geographic's investigation on climate change, agribusiness and the global food crisis.

Sneak preview of National Geographic's investigation on climate change, agribusiness and the global food crisis.

Kid Rock is using a sustainable brewery to brew his new American Badass Beer.

Carbon Motors' E7 is a purpose-built cop car headed for the market in 2013 (assuming a $300 million government loan comes through). And it's got a BMW turbo die

Diesels were noisy, smelly, polluting and slow. They're not anymore. Clean diesel is a real alternative, with 650-mile range one big benefit.

First North American Biochar Convention pulls in top Obama brass and puts this fledgling industry on the map.

Sunlight in the form of fuel? A breakthrough new discovery brings science one step closer to creating clean hydrogen fuel using only water and sunlight.

Facility makes DNA parts for biologists to use in experiments.

Japanese researchers have developed a method to quickly create stem cells from almost any other type of cell.

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The new materials could one day be used for building devices that have the properties of living things, such as the ability to self-heal.

Signals that coordinate the rhythms of our heart and lungs offer inspiration for creating 'unbreakable' security codes.

Breakthrough technology could make long-distance space travel feasible, clean our air here on Earth, and even combat global warming.

Gloves designed after a gecko's feet allow human climbers to scale walls with ease.

Researchers have learned how to compensate for imperfections in a honeycomb lattice that could lead to new advances in architecture.

Those baby blues mean something, but perhaps not what you think.

Quantum theory offers an answer to one of the oldest and most fundamental questions in biochemistry.

Wired's video series, 'Five Levels of Difficulty,' challenges an expert to explain a complicated concept to people at five levels of expertise — and it's cool.

Researchers working on the ASSISI project recently tested the limits of interspecies communication by constructing a makeshift robot translator.

The Spanish tipple is no longer just for tapas. This fortified, food-friendly wine is having a revival among cocktail enthusiasts.

New studies link triclosan to osteoporosis and impaired muscle function.

Italians have mastered 'la dolce far niente' and so should you.

In 10 or 20 years, we're going to need a lot of buildings like this senior living community in the Eastlake neighborhood of Seattle — resilient and efficient.

Smog in northern India is so bad, it's the equivalent of smoking 2 packs of cigarettes a day.

Even partial shade can dramatically cut an entire solar array's output — but not any more. An award-winning team believes it has the answer.

New documentary from the director of 'Fuel' and 'The Big Fix' offers real alternatives to fossil fuels.

Increased renewables, decreased emissions and falling energy prices. Germany's ambitious energy plan may be starting to pay off.