Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT The horror of every bubble of nitrogen in your blood bursting open in one split second became a ...

Five men died instantly when a catastrophic decompression accident occurred on the Byford Dolphin oil rig in the North Sea, ...

Winter means a lot of indoor time, and I've learned that science experiments are a lifesaver on those long, cold days. The best part? You don't need anything fancy. Baking soda, vinegar, food ...

A: I have seen some of those videos as well. My reaction is that if someone is stealing from your porch, they should not be able to complain if if turns out to be a booby trap. I also read, if the ...

Fragmentation, the way objects break into pieces, has long intrigued scientists. Researchers have observed that broken objects tend to produce fragments in a wide range of sizes, and the distribution ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. How and if a volcano explodes depends on how and when bubbles of ...

Volcanic blast power has long been pinned on one main driver: bubbles. As magma rises and outside pressure drops, dissolved gases come out of solution, nucleate bubbles, make the melt more buoyant, ...

High-speed cameras capture swarms of bubbles rising through an LED-illuminated water column, revealing the chaotic flow patterns of bubble-induced turbulence. Credit: B. Schröder/HZDR Scientists have ...

In 1970, a 45-foot, 8-ton sperm whale washed ashore near Florence, Oregon. The Oregon State Highway Division decided to dispose of the carcass using dynamite. Florence will celebrate the 55th ...