Darren Orf

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: Using dry ice or silver iodide crystals, it's possible to induce clouds to produce rain and hail.

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: For hundreds of years, the Balearic Islands off the coast of Spain found themselves caught between ongoing battles between the Moors and various Christian kingdoms.

Silencing the expression of the MTCH2 protein in human cells made them “immune” to obesity.

A massive trove of copper, gold, and silver sits lies beneath the Andes—but extracting it could come with a dark price.

For more than a century, an overestimation of a firefly's brightness has persisted.

A German UC-30 shipwreck is leaking TNT, one of many shipwrecks corroding in the ocean, but microbes are breaking down the hazardous materials.

A four-carbon sugar discovered 26,000 light-years away may explain how DNA's backbone arrived on Earth.

A new genomic atlas gives researchers a cheat sheet for steering stem cells toward curing disease.

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: The Atacama Trench, located off the coast of Peru and Chile, is one of the deepest oceanic regions on our planet, and scientists think it could be an ecological haven.

This urban legend has survived decades despite being thoroughly debunked by top military brass.