Hollywood released "The Deadly Mantis," a B-grade monster movie starring a praying mantis of nightmare proportions. Its ...

Documents from the 1950s and 1960s show how the Pentagon poured support into climate and cold-region research to boost the ...

Freddy was the largest and longest-lasting tropical cyclone ever recorded, and the impacts were catastrophic. In Malawi, more than 600 people died, and more than 650,000 were displaced.

The event featured extensive measures for crowd management and security, amidst challenges including a stampede and a water quality controversy. The grand 45-day Maha Kumbh, one of the world’s largest ...

Praying at home could be a crime “depending on who’s passing the window”, according to the architect of a controversial protest ban outside abortion clinics in Scotland. Gillian Mackay, the ...

The research team has become the first globally to generate steam for power production using chemical looping combustion (CLC) technology.

Its size of roughly 1.4 billion light-years makes Quipu the largest superstructure ever accurately measured, surpassing the Sloan Great Wall’s 1.1 billion light-years. Distribution of galaxies (color ...

Does size really matter? The cruise industry thinks so. For more than a century, cruise lines have competed to claim the title of world's largest cruise ship. When it set sail in 1912, the ill-fated ...

Apple plans to invest more than $500bn (£396bn) in the US over the next four years, starting with a new advanced manufacturing factory in Texas. The tech giant said it expected to create 20,000 ...

Construction kick off activity pulled back in January as fewer commercial projects broke ground, though infrastructure work kept builders busy with new highway, bridge and energy projects.