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The U.S. is spending millions to try and control feral hogs, but are those efforts in vain?

Giants have featured in stories for millennia, but the reason why they don't exist helps explain the natural world

Hawaii rarely sees direct hurricane hits—if Lala strengthens, it will be just the third recorded hurricane to make landfall there

This extreme rain was deadly, with at least eight people killed and many others stranded

This state, which has seen more than 200 twisters this year, could beat Texas’s all-time record of 244 tornadoes in 12 months

The creator of The X-Files discusses the Frankenstein elements in the newly released director’s cut of "The X-Files: I Want to Believe," and how Mary Shelley’s classic influenced the story.

A mathematician may have solved a 250-year-old question about whether every polygon contains a path home

Betelgeuse, the sky’s most famous red supergiant, is well studied but poorly understood

What if artificial intelligence is used to amplify human creativity rather than replace it?

Researchers have nailed down an elusive quantity called baryon number, which may be responsible for the cosmic mismatch between matter and antimatter

This storm, a rarity for this part of the Pacific, is expected to bring heavy rains, strong wind and possibly “life-threatening flooding” to Hawaii this weekend

There’s a reason humans have been obsessed with these celestial events for millennia—they are beautiful