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Hurricane Irma made its first U.S. landfall as a Category 4 storm in the Florida Keys Sunday morning. As Irma leaves the Keys and heads up along the west coast of Florida, it will cause catastrophic storm surge.

Hurricanes can affect millions of people on the ground, but only a handful of individuals see what the "Hurricane Hunters" squadron sees -- the eye of the storm from the inside.

As Dorothy famously said in The Wizard of Oz, there's no place like home. Home is where we go to rest and recharge. It's familiar, comfortable, and our own. We take care of our homes by cleaning and maintaining them, and...

Cyclones provide all the ingredients necessary for tornado formation.

Experts predict that Irma will remain a hurricane though Monday morning (Sept. 11), and perhaps longer.

Linguamyrmex vladi had ferocious snapping jaws and a horn reinforced with metal, which it may have used to puncture prey and drain their blood

Hours before Hurricane Irma struck Cuba, workers raced against the clock to prepare six dolphins housed at an island aquarium for an airlift that would transport them to safety.

(National Institutes of Natural Sciences) Astronomers found that active star formation upswells galaxies, like yeast helps bread rise. Using three powerful telescopes on the ground and in orbit, they observed galaxies fr...

A new study by social neuroscientists challenges the common perception that empathy declines during medical training.

A study reveals that the Ppm1f gene is altered when exposed to traumatic stress and is associated with posttraumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety.