These design-led waterfront villas are Japan distilled, with flourishes of understated luxury. Surrounded by a peaceful moat, ...

Japan is learning what life is life under a megaquake watch. NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Richard Allen, director of the Berkeley Seismology Lab, about what it means.

Yet in Hosoda’s latest, “Scarlet,” the director’s enviable reach exceeds his grasp. In it, his female protagonist is a ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

A remarkably intact pottery vessel dating back more than 10,000 years has been recovered from the depths of Lake Biwa, Japan, marking one of the oldest and most significant ceramic discoveries in ...

Also known as red lightning, the Transient Luminous Event (TLE) is associated with extremely intense thunderstorms, Space.com ...

When the ancestor of cetaceans went back into the water some 50 million years ago, it left a few things behind—including the functioning of certain genes that seem like they’d be hard to live without.

In a cooperation with Daihatsu and HAL College of Technology and Design in Japan, students show their vision of minicars in the future. Where is car design heading? Answering that question is well ...

We all have those moments when we’ll do anything but the task at hand, finding solace in the oddest and most unexpected diversions. Whether it's scrolling through social media for the nth time or ...

It was a foggy October afternoon on the central California coast when the Marine Mammal Center got a call on their public hotline: there were distressed cries coming from the frigid waters in Morro ...

Persistent westerly and northwesterly winds will push wind chills down to 10 to 15 degrees below zero by late Saturday night into early Sunday morning in Southeast Michigan. (WDIV) Read full article: ...