In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that discharges from thunderstorms are electric in nature (SN: ...

Both tree ring and ice data pinpointed the date of the extreme Miyake solar storm whose timing had long eluded researchers to ...

Robin Wall Kimmerer’s “The Serviceberry" explores the profound benefits that sharing and mutual exchange can create.

Woolly mammoths, giant sloths and saber-toothed cats were a fact of life for early humans. New clues in Earth’s northernmost ...

In How to Kill an Asteroid, Robin George Andrews looks at the successes and shortcomings of planetary defense.

Hal Lindsey, who popularized end times theology by connecting biblical prophecy to current and near-future events, died on ...

Today, around 50 percent of the world’s population relies on groundwater for its drinking water, and a third of the world’s ...

The scientists found three engineering challenges. One is where to build the facilities. They will be exposed to the elements ...

Their latest book "Hell ... this "golden spike," where suddenly all the Earth systems go haywire. There had been build-up points [prior to this day] but then there's this uncanny fact that after [the ...

Thousands of languages are facing extinction, and researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to preserve and ...

In Tartakovsky's imaginative fantasy, Spear and Fang survive and traverse an anachronistic world where dinosaurs, monsters, ...

In “A City on Mars,” Kelly and Zach Weinersmith investigate what life would be like for humans on the red planet, arguing ...