Showtime: lightning storm in Chicago

Sold by its trailer as a gag reel, Tom Cruise’s strangest movie may be the most unsettling portrait of our tech and climate moment yet.

Tropical Storm Isaias is set to become the basin’s first hurricane of the season, bringing life-threatening rain and storm surge to the Gulf Coast.

Seven of 16 planetary vital signs are in their most extreme state ever recorded, and El Niño is here to make matters even worse.

The deeply uncomfortable film forces audiences to confront what types of stories we tell ourselves about who has economic and political power.

The team behind director Takashi Yamazaki’s new film created their kaiju roars by setting up speakers on top of an outdoor dam. The people walking by weren’t prepared for what they heard.

Here’s what we know about the record-setting El Niño on a record-hot planet, and the most important questions scientists are trying to answer.

The new image isn’t just stunning—it may also provide clues about how this star survived its own explosion.

Five hauntings from the other side of technology.

As coastlines change, so do surf breaks. That may spell the end for premier waves and the tourist economies that depend on them.

Paris Marx, author of Hyperscale, has been tracking global data center development for years. The US has a lot to learn from what’s happened everywhere from Ireland to New Zealand.

The metric might not mean much to laypeople, but leap seconds have been a source of contention in the timekeeping community for years. Now, they’re dead.

The cloud has baffled astronomers since its discovery in 2018. Now, a new study offers a possible cause for its appearance.