The unsettling boom, rumble and shaking heard and felt across Greater Boston Saturday afternoon may have come from a meteor. First reports of the sound came at 2:11 p.m. Saturday, according to 1 ...

Imagine waking up to a loud crash from the kitchen, only to find the floor covered in glass and a hole in your oven door where the window used to be. Consumer Reports says hundreds of people have ...

The clock is ticking for President Donald Trump to get a deal done with Iran. Or maybe it’s the other way around: Iran could be dealing with a ticking time bomb – in its own oil wells! With just days ...

May 25 (Reuters) - Firefighters contending with a dangerously overheating industrial tank of a hazardous chemical in Southern California have eliminated the possibility of the tank exploding after a ...

Firefighters have been working through the weekend to cool a chemical tank “literally on the edge” of exploding in Southern California as they worked to avert a disastrous “worst-case” scenario, the ...

Consumers report being startled by glass oven range doors that shattered spontaneously, often when the oven wasn't even on. Oven doors are spontaneously exploding, according to our analysis of reports ...

Every day, workers at a garbage transfer station near Yellowstone National Park clock in with a troubling question on their minds. Will today be the day we inhale a freshly exploded can of bear spray?

A fireworks explosion inside a $1.3 million home in south Los Angeles forced police to call in a bomb squad to clean up the area Saturday as fire officials battled an ensuing blaze with fireworks ...

Appendicitis is the most common nonobstetric surgical emergency in pregnancy. It occurs when the appendix, a small organ in the digestive system, becomes inflamed and infected. Symptoms typically ...

A Hollywood woman narrowly escaped injury when the electric wheelchair she purchased from a thrift store exploded in her driveway minutes after she moved it outside. Alexandra Anaya's home security ...

An evolutionary survey across mammals found the appendix arose independently many times, clarifying why this small intestinal pouch persists while remaining modest in modern human health. The report ...