Elizabeth Peterson

In a deep, dank cave in Brazil, a pale, blind creature lurks, never venturing out to feel the sun.

Lions and tigers and birds, oh my!

The organization's many-sided facade is about to become a giant digital photo album.

Predators and prey bring an ancient tile floor to life.

Enjoy this inauspicious Friday, because you won't see another one like it until 2026.

Advanced physics is a lot more fun than you might think.

The winning images from this year's contest don't disappoint.

Shenyang's smog is even a problem for healthy individuals.

These torch-wielding robots might be the new face of manufacturing.

This oddly adorable cat carries a genetic secret.

The future has arrived in the Big Apple.

For the first time ever, an F-35 fighter jet has fired its fun into the wild blue yonder.

A four-legged robot with serious athletic endurance recently walked its way right into the history books.

From tissue-munching bacteria to brain-eating amoebas, there are a number of things that can literally eat you alive.

Archaeologists in Jerusalem may have just solved one of the city's greatest geographical mysteries.

How'd you like to travel from New York to London in less than an hour?

One scientist's hard-earned golden prize just sold for a sizeable chunk of change.

Love them or fear them, the spooky creatures that haunt your Halloween nightmares have complicated histories.

How many navies does it take to shoot down one ballistic missile? Only nine.

Here are six creepy critters to contemplate as you bob for apples, carve pumpkins and eat copious amounts of candy.

Electric eels have a shocking way of demobilizing their dinner.

Food you can't see is food you're less likely to snack on, a new study suggests.

Not sure what to be for Halloween? Google might be able to help.

There's still time to assemble an appropriately geeky getup in time for this weekend's festivities.

Archaeologists who thought they were excavating the site of an ancient house in Greece recently uncovered something much more rare.