Natalie Wolchover

A new report says there simply won't be enough water for people to keep eating so much meat. Will people really give it up by 2050?

A widespread image alleging to show Isaac barreling across the Gulf is actually a supercell thunderstorm superimposed over a picture of the ocean.

Today, a blue moon is just the second full moon in a calendar month. But the phrase has meant much more during its 500-year history.

Two weeks in, NASA's Curiosity rover has already caught several alleged UFOs and other anomalies on camera, according to the fringe sector of the Internet.

Children's toy preferences are influenced primarily by biology, not culture. Hormones control who likes what.

The resonant frequencies of your vocal tract change when you breathe in a lungful of helium. Now, here's what that means...

Scientists have long debated whether the universe is a fractal, or whether matter is distributed evenly within it. A new galaxy survey may settle the question.

Physicists say the Big Bang was a phase change, like water freezing into ice, rather than an explosion. The theory could have big implications.

Physicists say the Big Bang was a phase change, like water freezing into ice, rather than an explosion. The theory could have big implications.

Built by the inventor of the World Wide Web, the site outlines the concept and history of the web, and encourages people to expand it.

A stuntwoman walked across a rope strung between two trucks hurtling at 80 mph down the highway. How did she do it?

Many scientists have already made great strides in decoding animal languages, despite other scientists thinking animals don’t have them.

A New York man has been charged with fraud after faking his own drowning in order to collect life insurance. But what if he hadn't been doing it for the money?

A video showing a pod of dolphins trailing a fishing boat has gone viral. But is it just an ad campaign for Go Pro cameras?

A self-described "satellite archaeology researcher" claims to have found ancient Egyptian pyramid sites. But experts say she's a "pyridiot."

Pi appears all over math and nature, not just in circles. Here's why.

The human body can tolerate drastic departures from normal conditions. But what are its absolute limits?

We know that iron oxide makes Mars appear red, but we don't know exactly how so much of the compound got there.

No one ever raises objections during weddings anymore. But here's what would have happened in the old days…

People whose voices "carry" generate a piercing pitch through small movements of their vocal tracts.

Astronomers have figured out how four previously unexplained "monster stars" could have formed.

Most human technologies have analogues in nature. But why haven't wheels - our most useful invention of all - ever evolved?

How did these rocks get where they are?

NASA's Curiosity rover will look for complex organic molecules on Mars that would be telltale signs of ancient Martian life. What will happen if it finds some?

A scientist says that the United States experiences cycles of violence that peak every 50 years. If so, the next peak of violence will occur in 2020.