Volcanic eruptions on Iceland generated a cascade of events that led to record low levels of water in the Nile River in Africa and brought famine to the region more than two centuries ago.

The Internet ranks behind only television as the leading source for science news and information, but most users won't trust what they read online blindly, a new study finds.

In his excellent 1936 short story The Scarab, science fiction writer Raymond Z. Gallun describes exactly what the Israelis seem to want - a remote-controlled robotic device no larger than an insect.

Geologists have not agreed on which states are worse. A new list ranks them.

This image is a scanning electron micrograph of the anterior portion of a Drosophila virilis eggshell.