Mudslides are dangerous torrents that are usually referred to by geologists and first responders as debris flows.

Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory.

University of Chicago paleontologist and author Neil Shubin has been on multiple expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. Those trips have produced groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of ...

A major, 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck in the Caribbean Sea on Saturday and triggered a tsunami advisory in Puerto Rico and ...

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Below Big Sky Resort's Instagram posts, skiers and snowboarders clamored for a rope tow in the ski area’s terrain park. Once a running joke, those requests have now been made a reality. In an ...

Navigating the skies can be a bumpy experience, especially when flying into some of the world's most turbulent ... of the turbulence to geography and terrain. "Terrain certainly is a factor ...

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The heat was over-whelming. It's the only place in the world that stays hot night and day. At night the temperature drops to 100f, if you're lucky. Two tourists had died of dehydration since I'd ...