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Robert and Sandra Harris' elevated house was the only one left standing on Wiggins Street after Hurricane Katrina hit. They had mitigated their home...

ESA Astronauts training in terrestrial lava tubes in Lanzarote during the PANGEA 2016 course. Credit: ESA/L. Ricci Lava tubes, underground caves created by volcanic activity, could...

Click beetles can jump without the aid of their limbs when they are tipped onto their backsides. A team of University of Illinois researchers...

After living more than a year with a wearable total artificial heart device, Stan Larkin, 25, returned to the University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular...

Will extremely cold winters become more common in North America and Russia? Credit: © petrrunjela / Fotolia When the strong winds that circle the Arctic slacken,...

Olive oil. Credit: © Dušan Zidar / Fotolia The health benefits of olives -- and associated natural products such as olive oil -- have long been...

Artists impressions of a habitable planet around M-dwarfs (left) and primordial Earth (right). The surface of M-dwarf planet is illuminated by visible light. On...

Image showing where transits of our solar system planets can be observed. Each line represents where one of the planets could be seen to...

Researchers at ETH have used magnetic resonance imaging to make bubbles visible inside granular media through which a gas flows (left). The velocities of...

In this diagram, the atomic lattice of a crystal of barium oxide is depicted, with atoms of oxygen and barium represented by red and...

This is low flow in a stream. Non-extreme rainfall is essential for maintaining ecosystem functions. Credit: Praveen Kumar Extreme floods and droughts receive a lot of...