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It's easy for people to see what happens when a hurricane hits land -- just turn on the Weather Channel. What happens over the deep sea is more of a mystery. A new study suggests that out in the ocean, hurricanes may whip up 100-foot waves -- bigger than anyone thought.

A powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Russia's Far East is sending tsunami waves to Hawaii, Alaska, California and Oregon. More countries, like Peru and Chile, are bracing for impact.

This was the first time a Greenland shark was reported in the western Caribbean, researchers said. This species of shark is typically found in the Arctic and thousands of feet below the ocean surface.

U of N Regents Considering Artificial Intelligence Degree

The country was just beginning to worry about nuclear fallout, and the Air Force wanted to reassure people that it was OK to use atomic weapons. And so on July 19, 1957, five Air Force officers stood on a patch of ground in the Nevada desert and waited for the bomb to drop.

Scientists used an estimate of how much fossil fuel is left in the ground to do computer simulations and come up with a worst-case scenario.

TED Radio Host Guy Raz speaks with science writer and Sports Illustrated contributor David Epstein about why athletes are getting faster and stronger every year.

New moms get a lot of sympathy over lack of sleep, but studies find that dads may be hurting more, a new book on the science of parenting says. Bottom line: Both parents need help getting shut-eye.

Three weeks after Katrina, the Army Corps of Engineers says the levees in and around New Orleans are nowhere near being fully repaired. And the system won't be back to its pre-Katrina strength for some time.

A grand jury in Santa Fe indicted Baldwin in January after prosecutors received a new analysis of a gun the actor pointed at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during rehearsal for the film Rust.