Scientists may be one step closer in their hunt for signs of past life on Mars after the Curiosity rover's latest find.

Aliens, Blue Velvet, and Platoon are all among the very best movies from the year 1986, and they're all considered classics today.

We review Merchants of Andromeda, published by Allplay. Compete in intergalactic mini-games and Dutch auctions. Most money ...

Starfleet needs to do their jobs better.

Tucked against the northern edge of the Black Hills, this town exists in two fascinating dimensions: the thunderous, ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission set out to grab a small scoop of rock from asteroid Bennu and bring it home. Instead, it delivered ...

Chip Murrow had never heard the term "exploding trees" in his 30 years as a forester ⁠for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. Check on the best Omaha World ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chip Murrow had never heard the term "exploding trees" in his 30 years as a forester for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

Every time arctic air drops south, and temperatures plummet well below zero, social media lights up with a scary (and slightly cinematic) rumor called "exploding trees." Videos circulate of loud, ...

Massachusetts is already preparing for sub-zero temperatures and a massive snowstorm this weekend, but will residents also have to look out for exploding trees? Not exactly. “Exploding trees” have ...

Chip Murrow had never heard the term "exploding trees" in his 30 years as a forester for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. Is there a danger of exploding trees in Iowa? And how does it happen?

John Seiler was strolling across Virginia Tech’s campus with his students Thursday morning when something stopped them in their tracks: a sweet cherry tree with an unusual jagged scar running along ...