When magma cools down, it forms a sort of condom underneath a volcano that prevents new molten rock from erupting through.
The elephant in Chiang Mai struck his keeper with his trunk.
Western Australia’s “real life tomb raider” might have gotten her artifacts illegally.
The owner, who shot the tiger, raised it since it was a baby.
Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov said the bacteria on the International Space Station did not appear to be from Earth.
A message from the missing Argentine military submarine ARA San Juan discussed an apparent fire on the ship.
Queensland's Department of Environment and Heritage Protection said a tourist was bitten by a saltwater crocodile while she was standing on a creek bank in Cape Tribulation in Australia.
Bull sharks are a common occurrence in the Georges River, according to the local people who have grown up in the surrounding area.
Scientists have used Cyanobacteria — bacteria that can turn light energy into electricity — to print circuits that can serve as solar cells by using just a simple inkjet printer.
A recruitment video, which was released by the New Zealand police, has been called its "most entertaining recruitment video yet." It stars 70 real officers, the police band, Police Commissioner Mike Bush and even the country's social media star William Waiirua who makes a cameo.
Shot by Australian Customs officials in 2008, the video was released publicly on Tuesday following a five-year-long legal battle.
The team which made the discovery has estimated that it was made between 14,500 and 37,700 years ago, a time when there were no camels in the Southern Urals.
The Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico is home to underground rivers and underwater caves that are rich in methane. Despite being near the coast, the ecosystem is much like the deep ocean.
Ali Khalif Shire Ali, 20, from Werribee, Australia, was was charged with preparing to commit a terrorist attack and collecting documents to facilitate a terrorist act.
The herd was behind bars for four days after they were arrested for apparently eating and destroying plants recently bought for five lakh rupees (more than $7,000).
The incident caused a massive social response on the Chinese microblog Sina Weibo where people have called for more attention to be given to children who are left behind by their working parents.
The team led by Virginie Millien, an associate professor at McGill’s Redpath Museum, is not sure if the changes will carry on after reproduction, making these changes evolutionary and permanent.
The data was collected by Hubble Space Telescope and the Gaia satellite, and it also questions the standard model predictions of dark matter halos around galaxies.
Scientists have combined data from 16 separate NASA and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) spacecraft to observe a possible never-seen-before particle phenomenon in the magnetic environment around us that could help understanding Earth's magnetosphere.
Two young earthworm offspring were found in an experiment that uses NASA-provided Mars-like soil to grow plants that could aid human survival outside Earth.
The biochemical agent developed by South Korean scientists was tried on lab mice who showed new hair follicle growth after four weeks of application.
A customer recorded footage of a grocery store employee following him while he shopped.
"Silence. Then came the impact."
Japan's Coast Guard was working to determine the nationalities of the deceased.
Officials believe the ARA San Juan had just 7 days worth of oxygen left when it disappeared.
“A scenario of the apocalyptic development of the situation on the Korean Peninsula exists and we cannot turn [a] blind eye to it,” said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov.
In the video the woman is seen walking on the road while a man in a yellow hood is seen following her. After a few minutes, he walks towards her and attacks her, which is when the dog intervenes and chases away the attacker.
The two suspects will face the mandatory death penalty if found guilty and are due to appear in court on Tuesday as Monday's session was cut short.
Austrian designer Klemens Schillinger has created a device to help smartphone addicts cope in its absence. He has named it the Substitute Phone.
The broadcast through speakers at DMZ included updates about the soldier who had recently and began shortly after the defection on Nov. 13.
