Elizabeth Peterson

Finally, there's a crowdfunding campaign for people who want to watch giant robots fight to the death.

Marijuana is burning in California, but nobody feels buzzed about it.

Certain spiders have evolved a novel way of gliding through their rainforest habitat.

Twenty-six is old … if you're a cat.

Scientists recently teamed up to help solve a World War II-era mystery.

After two giant explosions in Tianjin, a black plume of smoke snaked over China's Bohai Sea.

Your gender might affect how you experience a broken heart.

It's white. It's weird. It looks like a bowl of noodles turned upside down underwater. What is it?

To keep a robot from toppling over, researchers built a futuristic exoskeleton that gives bots humanlike reflexes.

A very unusual octopus has scientists wondering just how well they really know the mysterious eight-armed creatures that inhabit the world's oceans.

Are you an "LOL"-er or a "haha"-er? The king of "hehes" or the queen of smiley face emoji?

A medieval sword inscribed with a mysterious message is stumping researchers and causing quite a stir among armchair historians.

To learn more about a historical grudge, members of two formerly feuding families are (quite literally) digging up the past.

Plugging your electric car into its charger with your own two hands is so 2013.

An enigmatic message, hidden for 2,000 years inside an underground cave, was recently uncovered in Israel. And it immediately began to vanish when exposed to the elements.

Here are a few of the things researchers learned from the lion and his brethren.

Wasps can do a lot more than ruin a summer picnic.

Breast pumps suck in more ways than one, but one startup is trying to make these devices more comfortable for moms.

This spider's incredible mating dance will make you swoon.

The fossilized remains of an ancient marine reptile with an extremely long neck and paddlelike appendages were recently uncovered in an unlikely place: the side of a cliff in Alaska.

A recent photo contest highlights images captured by ecologists in the field.

The winning photos from a recent ecology photo contest prove that Mother Nature is always ready for her close-up.

A giant python, about as long as a shipping container, was captured in Everglades National Park in Florida earlier this month (July 9).

Last month, Japanese auto manufacturer Lexus unveiled its newest product, and it's not another luxury SUV. It's a hoverboard.

Getting people to pay attention to a huge, global problem is easier when you have an enormous billboard at your disposal.