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A sampler of the many genres — garage, techno, house and bass music — that made a mark (and made us want to move) in 2012.

South Africa's parliament on Tuesday holds a no-confidence vote against President Jacob Zuma over allegations of corruption and mismanagement of the economy. Zuma has been president since 2009.

Misha Isaak's appointment had received intense scrutiny after allegations he improperly pressured a state official.

Four years after arriving at Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered "shallow" lightning and "mushballs."

When Phil is said to have seen his shadow upon emergence from a tree stump in rural Pennsylvania, that's considered a forecast for six more weeks of winter. If he doesn't see his shadow, an early spring is said to be on the way.

Young adult literature has never been so psychologically probing or artistically ambitious as it is today. Marissa Meyer's favorite novels beguile, thrill and, above all, transport younger readers to a Shakespearean magical theater, futuristic Chicago and a netherworld of ghost hunters.

So you know how, if someone comes by and taps the top of your open beer bottle, a volcano of brewski will explode? Well, it turns out that the physics involved are the same as what causes an atomic bomb to form a mushroom cloud. A scientist explains how it works.

Pyrocumulonimbus clouds create their own weather and can shift the wind so quickly that fire crews on the ground sometimes can’t get out of the way fast enough.

Hip-hop is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and we're looking back at albums that changed the game. Today, it's the group that took a shoestring DIY approach to creating horrorcore: Three 6 Mafia.