Robin Lloyd

2005 HURRICANE GUIDE: With another busy season set to start June 1, LiveScience looks at last year's onslaught and why 2005 could be another wild year.

The seven-story freak wave that slammed into the cruise ship Norwegian Dawn last month was not so freakish after all.

Even when they can't possibly recognize a criminal, witnesses identify them.

Extremes on one part of the planet are routinely reflected a world away.

Study could help scientists understand similar learning behavior in babies.

Scientists call it gliding, or directed aerial descent. It saves their lives.

Scientists learn how brainless plant snaps its carnivorous jaws shut so quickly.

A fault zone off the Pacific Northwest coast may be due for a major shift, history shows.

Scientists have looked at clouds from both sides now and found more bad news about air pollution and global warming.

Melting under pressure, rock acts like glue.

Unprecedented data on four storms will make houses safer and improve forecasting.

Wiring the soil as a hurricane rolls in, Benjamin Schwartz learns what water does underground.

Renewable energy, even generating power from wind, is no free lunch.

A team of paleontologists has found a missing link between the crocodile family and its small and graceful landlubber ancestors.

Germs go both ways, helping our health at times and killing us at others. A new study suggests they might give the gift of a long life, at least to fruit flies.

Today's endangered species lists hide thousands of plants and animals that will also become extinct if their host species disappear, new research shows.

A team of scientists has mapped the key genes in a group of trees that includes poplars and aspens, a result that could enable scientific rescues of all kinds of trees from drought and pests.