Not only did a webcam film the June 17 eruption of Mexico's Popocatépetl volcano in time-lapse, but it even caught the shockwave racing down its slopes.
Thanks to a $100K grant from Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, biomechanics researchers will investigate the practice of 'flopping' in basketball and soccer.
Armed with $5.5 million in funding, U.S. conservationists are trying to protect four 'resilient landscapes' as ecological strongholds in the face of global warming.
Mongolia, the host of this year's U.N. World Environment Day, is home to Earth's rarest bear. Conservationists hope 2013 will mark the beginning of its comeback.
Molten rock is a mortal danger to anyone nearby, but it's often still too beautiful to ignore. Thankfully, these amazing videos let us ogle lava without risking our lives.
Using an enormous photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists made a 3-D IMAX visualization that spans nearly 10 billion years of cosmic history.