Baseball certainly has seen its share of natural oddities at games: from swarms of bees and other flying insects to a seagull and dove pegged by two future Hall of Famers and even an earthquake during ...

The story Susan Behery tells about dust blowing into Colorado from New Mexico and Arizona sounds almost Biblical, like cows dropping dead in their owners’ fields or swarms of locusts devouring their ...

In his 1963 scifi story “The Invincible,” the Polish writer Stanisław Lem imagined an artificial species of free-floating nanobots which roamed the atmosphere of a far-off planet. Like tiny bugs, the ...