A vast geologic formation in three northern Plains states contains twice as much oil and three times as much natural gas as the federal government previously estimated, according to a reassessment of the area released by the Interior Department Tuesday.

A material called boron nitride - originally touted as useful for next-generation electronics - turns out to be a high-performance pollutant "sponge".

A radical theory predicting the existence of “time crystals” — perpetual motion objects that break the symmetry of time — is being put to the test.

A massive volcanic eruption 75,000 years ago seems to have had little effect on the climate, suggesting that such huge blasts could be survivable    

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has discovered a small difference in the make up of antimatter and matter

Theoretical physicist: "This calculation tells you that many tens of billions of years from now there'll be a catstrophe"

Italy's Mount Etna sent lava and gas shooting toward the stars early Tuesday morning, its first big eruption in 2013. The famous Sicilian volcano burst to life overnight, sending a fountain of fire into the air.

Invisibility cloak technology can redirect seismic waves

They knew it was true, but now they've shown it: Scientists have demonstrated that the uncertainty principle, one of the most famous rules of quantum physics, operates in macroscopic objects visible to the naked eye.

Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: After coming through with evidence for the long-sought Higgs Boson, Europe's Large Hadron Collider has begun a two-year "Long Shutdown," during which its underground components will be upgraded to run at even higher energies.