Still from Twisters (Image via Universal Pictures) One of the most brutal sequences in the movie, Twisters, is when the dreaded El Reno EF5 strikes. The natural phenomenon is a part of the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Governors in several Republican-led states are pressing the Trump administration to cut strings attached to their federal education money, a goal conservatives have long ...

A deadly tornado that raged through Joplin, Missouri 14 years ago is once again in the spotlight after the release of a new Netflix documentary. The film is directed by Alexandra Lacey, a UK ...

Will Norton was one of 161 people who died from the devastating 2011 Joplin tornado, and a heartbreaking tribute has now resurfaced following the release of The Twister: Caught in the Storm.

A woman who duped a man into believing they were having twins, until her fake baby bump was exposed in a hospital scan, has been jailed and given a restraining order. Libby Vernon, 23, from ...

NASA conducted a twins study from 2015 to 2018 and the Kelly brothers participated in it. The study examined the effects of long-duration spaceflight on the human body. While Scott spent 340 days in ...

For comparison, an EF5 tornado has winds of at least 201 mph, and no EF5 tornadoes have been confirmed in the United States since 2013. More than 100 tornadoes have been confirmed in a total of 14 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Scott Kelly and Mark Kelly are American astronauts and identical twin brothers. They participated in NASA's Twins Study, conducted between 2015 and 2018. Scott Kelly appeared on Fox News with ...

EF0 is the weakest, going up in severity until it reaches EF5 - which is the ranking of the Joplin tornado. As well as getting an EF ranking based on damage, the scale also looks at wind speeds.