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Extremes collide in Florida: Summer weather and De...
As the Northern Hemisphere tiptoes into summer, Florida is already in the crosshairs of what is likely to be a season of...
FDA advises Covid vaccine makers to target new con...
The FDA advised drugmakers to update Covid vaccines to target the KP.2 strain, a descendant of the highly contagious JN....
NASA accidentally airs space station emergency dri...
NASA has been forced to reassure the public that there is no emergency aboard the International Space Station, after aud...
Georgia residents are fighting efforts to build a ...
A plan to build a massive monkey-breeding facility that could eventually house 30,000 long-tailed macaques in a small Ge...
Feel grief when a favorite TV show ends? You’re no...
A study found that fans of the Australian show “Neighbours” experienced genuine grief and loss after the show was cancel...
A giant, ‘sunbathing’ fish that washed ashore in O...
A giant species of fish that was first discovered seven years ago washed ashore in Oregon last week, according to marine...
Chile’s Humboldt penguins could face extinction as...
The Humboldt penguin population has dramatically decreased in areas along the central coast of Chile, making them one of...
Norway discovers Europe's largest deposit of rare ...
Mining firm Rare Earths Norway says it has discovered Europe’s largest proven deposit of highly prized rare earth elemen...
African elephants call each other by unique names,...
African elephants call each other and respond to individual names — something that few wild animals do, according to new...
Big, yellow and shy: Invasive spiders are crawling...
Joro spiders are large, venomous, yellow and making their way up the East Coast. People may begin to spot them in New Je...
'The big one': Researchers gain clearest picture y...
A fault off the Pacific coast could devastate Washington, Oregon and Northern California with a major earthquake and tsu...
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft encounters issues on...
The two NASA astronauts flying Boeing’s Starliner capsule to the International Space Station encountered some issues, wh...
Earth is warming at a record rate, with 92% of las...
The rate Earth is warming hit an all-time high in 2023 with 92% of last year’s surprising record-shattering heat caused ...
Controversial trial of technology that could be us...
The city of Alameda, California, has denied scientists permission to continue a controversial trial of cloud-brightening...
Equipment failure on NASA's Hubble space telescope...
The Hubble space telescope will operate with just one gyroscope going forward, which will limit its scientific capabilit...
A week of rocket launches: SpaceX and Boeing each ...
Boeing and SpaceX are each set to launch their rockets and spacecraft on crucial flights to space. Boeing will try to la...
Triple-digit temperatures to hit parts of Californ...
A heat wave is expected to hit much of the Southwest and parts of California from Tuesday through Thursday, as a ridge o...
Eruption at Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano seen from hel...
Video from the U.S. Geological Survey shows lava erupting from long fissures on Kīlauea, Hawaii’s second largest volcano...