Using diamonds and a laser, scientists crushed and heated methane produced from just water and minerals to create the same hydrocarbon blend found in natural gas.
Predicting global warming may have just gotten even harder. The swimming of ocean creatures may be as effective as winds or tides at ocean mixing—a process that plays a major role in shaping Earth's climate.
A new swarm of giant jellyfish is building up off China's coast, and experts are warning fishers in Japan to brace for an inundation like the one that devastated their catch in 2005.
Jellyfish that can grow up to 6.5 feet wide and weigh 440 pounds are poised to invade Japan. They are Nomura's jellyfish, and scientists and fishers who recall the last major inundation in 2005 are bracing themselves for the next potential wave.
The country's first ever nationwide tiger survey is a heartening sign for the Bengal tiger, which has dropped severely in number throughout its Asian habitat, conservationists say.
Stretching more than 2.7 miles long and soaring as high as 460 feet, a cavern in Southeast Asia is the biggest single cave passage yet found, British explorers say.
Millions of farmed and wild freshwater turtles end up in China every year, where they are eaten or used in medicine. A new Florida law aims to protect the reptiles in the wild.
As suburbs consume baboon habitat, the cheeky monkeys have been raiding homes and garbage bins for food, prompting residents to fight back—some with guns, others with community education. Video.
Rattled on a giant "shake table," a seven-story building wobbled but didn't fall down—evidence that mid-rise wood-frame buildings can be built to withstand earthquakes, experts say. Video.
Attacking from nests as big as pickup-truck beds, invasive western yellowjackets are munching their way through an "astonishing diversity" of Hawaiian creatures, a new study says.
From the limestone caves to the world's tallest waterfall—"the eyes of the planet" are on the finalists from which the seven natural wonders of the world will be chosen.
For the first time, Florida is allowing select hunters to kill pythons in the wild. The non-native snakes are believed to number in the tens of thousands and are killing endangered species, experts say. Video.
Vampire bats in Peru are increasingly biting people, and a National Geographic researcher is trying to find ways to stem the resulting spread of deadly rabies. Video.
Jumbo squid were found flapping on a California beach Saturday after an earthquake, but experts think the timing is coincidental. So what did strand the ocean giants? With video.
