Adrenaline seeker Tanner Braungardt attempts to maintain his balance during a high-speed descent down a steep indoor staircase using specialized wheeled footwear.

If this winter feels strange, it’s not in your head. In the eastern U.S., residents have been suffering through one of the most frigid seasons in recent memory. Yet for much of the West, temperatures ...

That’s what we skydivers call people who can’t understand why we risk everything for the thrill of our sport: “Wuffo,” as in “what for”? Why would we jump out of airplanes and trust our lives to the ...

Officials are designing new ways to protect the shorelines from sudden flooding and longer storm seasons. Officials are designing new ways to protect the shorelines from sudden flooding and longer ...

As global travel surges toward 1.8 billion arrivals, destinations are testing controversial new measures to control the crowds. The cherry blossoms are still blooming beneath Mount Fuji, and the ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new Johns Hopkins University study finds. The work demonstrates that a certain ...