"Now, we're trying to see if we can pull up the truck using a large crane," he said. "There is risk that the hole will collapse." The driver was able to talk with rescuers until around 1:00 p.m ...

then let the holes freeze over to about three inches, creating small upside-down underwater ice bowls. Oil, which is lighter than water, stayed trapped inside, keeping it from spreading around the ...

Simply sign up to the Sustainability myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Produced by oysters in oceans or mussels in rivers, pearls have been coveted by humans since the Bronze Age.

Home to over 1,000 freshwater springs ... You’ll find one of America's best swimming holes on the west bank of the Withlacoochee River, not far from the Florida-Georgia border.

The freshwater mussel Hyriopsis schlegelii is a cultured bivalve in China, and the quality of the pearls produced is affected by the type of gonads. However, because of the lack of a published genome ...

The LHC will not generate black holes in the cosmological sense. However, some theories suggest that the formation of tiny 'quantum' black holes may be possible. The observation of such an event would ...

Why is gravity so much weaker than the other fundamental forces? A small fridge magnet is enough to create an electromagnetic force greater than the gravitational pull exerted by planet Earth. One ...

Jingga Pool is part of O'Hares Creek and safe to swim in; a challenging 2.4km walk along the Jingga track will reward you with a freshwater swimming hole at the end. Keep an eye out for potoroos ...