A highway in Oregon was recently closed when a crate filled with slime eels overturned on the highway, releasing tons of gooey slime. But what exactly are those creatures, and why do they produce the slime?

In a recent court hearing, the parents of Charlie Gard were at odds with their son's hospital over a seemly straightforward fact: The size of their baby's head.

If you're going to challenge someone to a water gun fight this summer, it's best you don't take up arms against Mark Rober, a former NASA engineer who has created the world's largest Super Soaker.

The flexible fabric, developed by Harvard researchers, might also one day assist with movement, acting as a soft exoskeleton for wearers.

Tardigrades, often called water bears or moss piglets, are near-microscopic animals that are almost indestructible and can even survive in outer space.

Smoke is rising from Mount Vesuvius.

A new view from space shows Antarctica's newest bouncing baby iceberg. And it's huge.

The eight-legged micro-animal called a tardigrade could survive nearly all the way until the death of the sun, a new study suggests — long after humans are history.

A woman in Missouri recently died from a rare tick-borne illness called Bourbon virus disease, which was first identified only a few years ago.

A new type of cancer treatment that involves altering a person's genes passed a major hurdle this week, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel recommended that the agency approve the therapy, the New York Times reported.

Chinese scientists have just shattered a record in teleportation. They sent the quantum state of a photon from the ground in Tibet to a satellite in orbit, 870 miles (1,400 kilometers) above the Earth's surface.

Scientists have re-created a relative of the smallpox virus in a lab, from scratch.

Lions and leopards normally don't get along, but one wild lioness — recently spotted nursing a leopard cub in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area — apparently didn't get that memo.

In an unexpected first, wildlife experts have identified a lioness nursing a leopard cub.

Eight sunken ships have been found around Fourni, a cluster of Greek islands that's a hotspot for wrecks, a team of underwater archaeologists announced.