A widely used crop pesticide first introduced in the 1990s has caused significant changes to bee colonies worldwide and removing it could be the key factor in restoring nature’s army of pollinators, according to...
(AP) TOKYO – One of Japan’s crippled nuclear reactors still has fatally high radiation levels and hardly any water to cool it, according to an internal examination Tuesday that renews doubts about the plant’s...
(multimedia) The five suborbital sounding rockets were fired off over the course of five minutes, starting just before 5 a.m. ET, to track what’s happening in the upper atmosphere. ATREX was designed to help...
Japan has shut down another nuclear power station, bringing it a step closer to suspending atomic energy, following the Fukushima disaster. Only one of the 54 nuclear reactors remains in operation, and it is...
ROME — Venice appears to have more nicknames than street names. It’s known as the “Queen of the Adriatic,” the “City of Water,” “City of Masks,” “City of Bridges,” “The Floating City,” and “City...
Humans hunted Australia’s giant vertebrates to extinction about 40,000 years ago, the latest research published in Science has concluded. The cause of the widespread extinction has provoked much debate, with climate change being one...
To highlight declines in the world’s groundwater supplies, a new visualization of Earth’s groundwater reserves, created in part with space data from the joint NASA/German Aerospace Center (DLR) Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)...
In a typical March, weather.com reports, you may be teased with one, maybe two nice days before being hit with the cold reality of winter. But in the eastern part of the country, March...
The small town of Clintonville, Wis., has a mystery on its hands. Since Sunday, the residents have been disturbed by “booming” noises loud enough to wake them from their sleep. Last night, hundreds of...
Across much of the United States, this has been an unusually mild winter, especially for those living east of the Mississippi. Not a few people have noted that spring seems to have come early...
