Roth was standing at the edge of a cave in Pirkanmaa, Finland. Inside, he knew, was a geocache: a container that was stashed ...

A powerful magnitude 7.8 aftershock off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula that arose from July’s magnitude 8.8 earthquake is ...

An airplane, traveling with a constant engine speed, makes a large and perfect circle parallel to the ground. There is no ...

Three vaccines were on the agenda for this week’s meeting of ACIP, the CDC’s key advisory panel on immunization: the combined ...

THE term “harvest moon,” originating in England, where the brilliant moon-light of several consecutive evenings aided the ...

Emily Bazar is a journalist and editor who focuses on health and health policy. Previously, she was a senior correspondent ...

Suzette Brewer is a writer and producer specializing in federal Indian law and Indigenous issues. A member of the Cherokee ...

The Ig Nobels were founded in 1991 by Marc Abrahams, editor of satirical magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Previous ...

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Scientists have found thousands of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, throughout the galaxy. This artist’s ...

With current rocket propulsion technology, it would take tens or hundreds of millennia to reach our neighboring star system, ...

Climate-fueled heat has caused thousands of excess deaths over the past three summers, which were the three hottest on record ...