Widener University's Beyoncé course allows students to explore her influence on African-American culture
New York magazine says its star political reporter is on leave after a relationship was disclosed
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A combination of fog and thick smoke from a marsh fire reduced visibility on Louisiana highways to near nothing on Monday
October 24, 2023
Scientists, lawmakers and those who make their living from Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay are teaming up to hunt for the reason why quahogs appear to be on the decline
October 24, 2023
A team of scientists has unveiled the possible living face of Peru’s most famous mummy, a teenage Inca girl sacrificed in a ritual more than 500 years ago atop the Andes
October 25, 2023
Russia’s military has simulated a nuclear strike in a drill overseen by President Vladimir Putin
October 25, 2023
China has announced plans to send a new telescope to probe deep into the universe as it prepared to launch the country's next three-member crew for its orbiting space station
October 25, 2023
Boeing is reporting a loss of $1.64 billion in the third quarter
October 25, 2023
Environmental groups are urging a moratorium on deep-sea mining ahead of an international meeting in Jamaica where an obscure U.N. body will debate the issue amid fears it could soon authorize the world’s first license to harvest minerals from the ocean floor
October 25, 2023
China’s Environment Minister Huang Runqiu says his country wants to strengthen cooperation with the U.S. to combat climate change
October 26, 2023
In a historic reveal, NASA announced that its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has returned an unprecedented asteroid sample containing “crucial elements” that may provide insight into the early days of our solar system. Arriving on September 24, a pristine sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, estimated to be around 4.5 billion years old, landed in the Utah desert within a capsule. Upon initial analysis, this sample exceeded NASA’s goal of 60 grams, marking it as the most substantial carbon-rich asteroid sample ever retrieved on Earth. This finding suggests the existence of water and an unexpectedly high concentration of carbon, hinting at the possibility
October 26, 2023
A new study says that in a little more than five years the world will likely be unable to stay below the internationally agreed temperature limit for global warming if it continues to burn fossil fuels at its current rate
October 30, 2023
Saleemul Huq, a pioneering climate scientist from Bangladesh who pushed to get the world to understand, pay for and adapt to worsening warming impacts on poorer nations, has died
October 30, 2023
Three astronauts have returned to Earth after six months aboard China's orbiting space station
October 31, 2023
Maryland doctors say the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died
October 31, 2023
Mexicans are celebrating Day of the Dead, an intangible tradition borne down from pre-Hispanic cultures that is also a celebration for all the senses
October 31, 2023
Huge ash columns have erupted from Eurasia’s tallest active volcano and forced authorities to close schools in two towns on Russia’s sparsely populated Kamchatka Peninsula
November 01, 2023
A small nonprofit, Summer Science Program, has puzzled for much of the last year over what do to with a surprise bequest of an estimated $200 million
November 01, 2023
A recent study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters suggests that the extraction of water from underground reservoirs by humans is occurring at a significant rate, leading to a change in the Earth’s axis. From 1993 to 2010, the Earth’s tilt changed by about 31.5 inches. Based on prior research, humans pumped an estimated 2,150 gigatons of water from natural underground reservoirs called aquifers during those years. That volume is equal to about 860 million Olympic-sized pools and equates to a global sea level rise of around one-quarter inch. Much of the extracted groundwater is used for irrigation and
November 01, 2023
With last year’s undersea volcano injecting massive amounts of water high into the atmosphere, scientists were bracing for a big Antarctica ozone hole this fall
November 01, 2023
NASA's Lucy spacecraft has encountered the first of 10 asteroids on its long journey out to Jupiter
November 01, 2023
Birds in North America will no longer be named after people
November 01, 2023
The tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began its third release of treated and diluted radioactive wastewater into the sea after Japanese officials said the two earlier releases ended smoothly
November 02, 2023
One of modern climate science’s pioneers is warning that the world isn’t just steadily warming, but is dangerously accelerating
November 02, 2023
Northern New Mexico or bust
November 03, 2023
Brunch dates and flag football games might be a little easier to get to this Sunday, when phones grace early-risers with an extra hour of rest before alarm clocks go off
November 03, 2023
The watchdog office overseeing the National Science Foundation is sending investigators to Antarctica’s McMurdo Station after hearing concerns about the prevalence of sexual violence at the U.S. research base
November 03, 2023
Federal authorities subpoena NYC mayor's director of asylum seeker operations
Biden opens busy foreign policy stretch as anxious allies shift gaze to Trump, Harris
New Zealand’s army chief: Pacific nations need tailored military training
Fed's Bowman says dissent on large rate cut based on above-target inflation data
Kenya court finds Meta can be sued over moderator layoffs
Three Mile Island nuclear plant could restart on Microsoft AI power deal