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NOAA issues highest-ever early forecast for the co...
In the highest hurricane season forecast they have ever issued in May, forecasters with NOAA predict an above-normal num...
Extreme heat hits Texas and Florida early in the s...
Heat and humidity descended on parts of Texas, the Gulf Coast and South Florida this week — a bout of early-season extre...
A helium leak in Boeing's spaceship will further d...
NASA again delayed Boeing’s debut crewed flight of its Starliner space capsule, so that engineers can further evaluate a...
Hundreds of mountain goats were flown to a new hom...
Hundreds of mountain goats were relocated to Washington state's Cascade Mountains. But most died within a few years, due...
Turbulence-related deaths are rare, but climate ch...
One passenger died and 30 others were injured aboard a Singapore Airlines flight that was hit by "severe turbulence," of...
Blood-sucking body lice may have spread plague mor...
Scientists have long debated whether human body lice might have helped drive the rapid spread of the bacteria responsibl...
Threatened howler monkeys are dropping dead from t...
Threatened howler monkeys have been dropping dead from trees in Mexico’s southeastern tropical forests in recent weeks a...
Rethinking the mystery of gravity
What would you think if someone said gravity might not exist as a fundamental force? Prof. Janna Levin explored that min...
FDA allows Neuralink to implant second patient wit...
Neuralink will implant a second patient with a brain chip despite some initial issues with the first one. This time the ...
These Mexicans are trying to save the volcano axol...
In Mexico, the volcano axolotl, a species of amphibian salamander, is in critical danger of extinction as rivers where t...
Ed Dwight, America's first Black astronaut candida...
Ed Dwight, America’s first Black astronaut candidate, finally rocketed into space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos...
Could Dyson spheres exist in our galaxy?
A Dyson sphere is a hypothetical giant structure that surrounds a star and can capture its solar output. Two separate gr...
17-year-old works to detect wildfires with rocket ...
Canadian teenager Jason Zhao explains his idea of launching a small rocket that will launch a drone upon landing in orde...
Concrete made from sugarcane could help fight clim...
Scientists in London are testing a form of concrete called sugarcrete which is made from fibrous material left over from...
New research could solve the mystery behind the co...
More than 30 pyramids in Egypt, including in Giza, may have been built along a branch of the Nile that has long since di...
World's oceans have gone 'crazy haywire,' official...
Oceans are record-hot, and nearly two-thirds of the world’s coral reefs have experienced heat stress at levels high enou...
Cities look for new ways to keep people safe — and...
As summer approaches, preparations for extreme heat are well underway for months in parts of the country that were hit h...
Mona Lisa's mysterious background decrypted by art...
Over 500 years after Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, an academic believes she has unraveled the mystery about t...