Common knowledge: Exercise is good for you. A little less common, but still pretty common: Exercise is good for your brain. Not very common knowledge but should be: The cascade of beneficial effects ...

Researchers at the Würzburg site of the Cluster of Excellence ctd.qmat have succeeded in transferring the topological quantum Hall and spin Hall effects to a hybrid light-matter system by harnessing ...

Australian filmmaker Josef Gatti's gorgeous close-up study of the natural forces shaping and driving the universe is at once familiar and an eye-opener. Josef Gatti tells us little that we don’t ...

EXCLUSIVE: Phenomena, premiering this Thursday at the True/False film fest in Columbia, MO, offers nothing short of “a psychedelic odyssey into the fabric of the universe.” We have your first look at ...

Research shows that a phenomenon called St. Elmo’s Fire, which occurs during thunderstorms, may be much more common than previously understood. By Annie Roth When lightning strikes in a thunderstorm, ...

During the early hours of January 25th, a rare phenomenon was captured by one of our viewers. She sent in a photo showing pillars of light over her Alleghany County.WHAT IS IT?The light pillars are ...

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 ...

The polar vortex is sending arctic blasts and chilly temperatures to most of the United States, and states from Texas to Oklahoma could see snow, sleet and ice. As of Wednesday, Jan. 21, millions of ...

Did you notice the stunning, colorful sight in the sky Monday morning? It wasn't a rainbow. It's called a sundog, a weather phenomenon that only happens when the conditions are just right. Stream NBC ...

A new study reveals that during orgasm, some women experience a slew of physical and emotional responses, which can include laughter, nosebleeds, tears, headaches and even hallucinations. Published ...

Atmospheric rivers are massive plumes of moisture carried across the sky that can dump heavy rains or snow over land. Atmospheric rivers generally form in tropical regions, where warm temperatures can ...

A team of Australian bodyboarding ratbags has managed to capture staggering footage of an extraordinary oceanic phenomenon: a place where four 12-ft (3.7-m) waves regularly converge into an oval dip, ...