The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Since their discovery in 1982, exotic materials known as quasicrystals have bedeviled physicists and chemists. Their atoms arrange ...

The right mix of hot, humid, rising air can produce some of the most powerful weather phenomena on the planet. How do harmless puffy white clouds grow into towering, potentially dangerous cumulonimbus ...

Shocking video captured the moment an unhinged driver rammed into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle in Chicago amid a spate of attacks on federal agents. The chaotic scene unfolded when ...

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Storm Team 10 and the National Hurricane Center are monitoring a tropical wave in the central Atlantic for tropical development in the coming days. The NHC has a 90% chance this area becomes a ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Usually around this time of year Susan Wagner is prepping for another Staten Island championship and a deep PSAL postseason run. Carleen Rago’s teams have won 10 of the last 11 ...

With the results around the NFL on Sunday pushing the San Francisco 49ers into a tie for the best record in the league, it seems increasingly likely that they’ll make a move to try to replace Nick ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A vacant hotel and restaurant caught fire near Interstate 35 and the University of Texas at Austin campus Sunday evening, sending huge plumes of black smoke into the air that could be ...

Netflix will show video versions of 16 podcasts on sports, culture, entertainment and true crime. By Nicole Sperling and Jessica Testa After months of speculation, Netflix is taking its first step ...

Hurricane Priscilla has intensified into a Category 2 storm off the west coast of Mexico and is expected to keep getting stronger, possibly into a Category 3 by day's end, which would make it a major ...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Thirteen years after he was the swaggering quarterback wearing No. 2 who came into Bryant-Denny Stadium with a target on his back, Johnny Manziel returned to the scene of his finest ...