Stories by Stephanie Pappas

Dragon Hole, or Longdong, is reportedly more than 300 meters deep. If confirmed, that would be far deeper than the previous record holder, Dean's Blue Hole in the Bahamas

Researchers can only guess about the bumpy, colorful living ball found off California 

Outdoorsy types and outdoor workers like roofers might suffer first, but it's the elderly and the mentally ill who make up the majority of deaths

There is no template for the path to violence and rarely can a single cause explain any one atrocity

The creature had spiderlike mouthparts and eight legs, but lacked spinnerets

Photogrammetry highlights features of the English king's skeleton and resting place

SnOMG! Much of the eastern U.S. anticipating a cold, snowy weekend

Fluid dynamics sheds light the Tribrachidium's approach to mealtime 550 million years ago

In an off-the-cuff remark to astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, the former National Security Agency contractor suggested E.T. might send encrypted messages that humans mistake for noise

Tricycle accidents requiring a visit to the emergency room peak when children reach age 2, a new study finds

The EPA is now scrambling to mitigate the mess it created when agency workers inadvertently unleashed a pool of wastewater from an abandoned gold mine

Victims tend to suffer in silence, making it difficult for parents to identify and address the problem

The 7.8 magnitude temblor that hit Nepal in April shifted the world's tallest mountain slightly to the southwest

The opah's warm blood allows it to swim faster at depths nearing 400 meters

The plague preferentially killed the very old and those already in poor health. Natural selection or better diets may have allowed those who remained to thrive

Several fisheries depend on the river's estuary and are at risk of collapse

The original set of tracks has since been divided up and partially lost

The skeletons of four kittens and two cats in a cemetery may push back the date of cat domestication in Egypt to 3600 B.C.

The determination on children's faces as they struggled with a difficult task was not observed in chimpanzees involved in the same study, suggesting that the expression is an evolutionary trait

The detailed map could be used to help scientists understand the basis of neurological or psychiatric disorders in humans

Long unnoticed, the skull may represent a new species of extinct sperm whale

Writing about love made students rank candy and water as sweeter-tasting than writing about jealousy or other topics

A new study suggests why estimating distances is so difficult

The existence of the Higgs boson particle was confirmed, a strong case for human-caused climate change was released and scientists analyzed the oldest-known human DNA