May 31, 2021, 6:00am Life
Imagine a cat. Now imagine that cat weighs as much as 900 pounds and eats things the size of a rhinoceros. Read story
May 25, 2021, 9:13am Health
In nearly every major city in the U.S., people of color are exposed to more extreme urban heat than white people, a new study found. Read story
May 25, 2021, 6:00am Life
Roughly a sixth of the planet’s land and freshwater area now lies within protected or conservation areas, according to a United Nations report released Wednesday. Read story
May 24, 2021, 5:47pm Nation & World
The first total lunar eclipse in more than two years coincides with a supermoon this week for quite a cosmic show. Read story
May 24, 2021, 6:04am Life
The European Space Agency presented a vision Thursday to put satellites in orbit around the moon that would facilitate future missions to Earth’s closest neighbor. Read story
May 22, 2021, 4:07pm Nation & World
A few days ago, millions of tons of super-heated gas shot off from the surface of the sun and hurtled 90 million miles toward Earth. Read story
May 22, 2021, 1:36pm Nation & World
Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist who developed higher-yield rice varieties that helped feed people around the world, died Saturday at a hospital in the southern city of Changsha, the Xinhua News agency reported. He was 91. Read story
May 18, 2021, 6:02am Life
A lunar eclipse this month will be a little more special than usual, occurring as the moon makes one of its closest approaches to the Earth all year. Read story
May 18, 2021, 6:00am Life
In just a short time, an insect infestation of biblical buggy proportions is expected to take place across the eastern United States. Read story
May 16, 2021, 3:03pm Life
Sharks use the Earth's magnetic field as a sort of natural GPS to navigate journeys that take them great distances across the world's oceans, scientists have found. Read story
