Rare Northern Lights Animate Night Skies Around the Globe: Photos
Night skies came aglow on Thursday with the shimmering palette of the northern lights, or the aurora borealis if you…
How Global Warming Made Hurricane Milton More Intense and Destructive
Hurricane Milton walloped Florida with at least 20 percent more rain and 10 percent stronger winds than a similarly rare…
Hairballs Shed Light on Tsavo Man-Eating Lions’ Menu
The Tsavo man-eaters terrorized railroad workers in British East Africa in the 19th century, but their tastes went well beyond…
What Flying in a Wind Tunnel Reveals About Birds
It happens every fall: The days grow colder, the nights grow longer, the birds grow restless and then they take…
Rare Northern Lights Entrance Viewers in New York and Beyond
The aurora borealis, which transformed the sky with startling streaks of pink and purple, arose from a magnetic storm.As a…
Frances Conley, Neurosurgeon Who Protested Sexism, Dies at 83
She was the rare woman in her field, and a tenured professor. But when a sexist colleague was promoted, she…
Hubble Telescope Shows Great Red Spot of Jupiter Bouncing Like a Kickball
A sequence of images captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showed how much the giant storm changed shape as it…
Florida IV Plant Spared From Storm, Company Says
The Daytona Beach plant that makes nearly a quarter of the IV fluids used in the United States is intact…
U.S. Warns of Solar Storm That Could Bring Northern Lights and Power Concerns
An explosion of particles is expected to reach Earth on Thursday, and could lead to visible Northern Lights in much…
Latest WWF Wildlife Survey Points to ‘Alarming’ Declines
The results from an important ongoing assessment look grim. But the survey is often misunderstood.Wildlife populations around the world continue…