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Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years of the universe.
Greece has declared a state of emergency on Santorini because of the hundreds of undersea earthquakes that have shaken the resort island for nearly a week.
U.K. scientists say they have made a historic breakthrough by making the first image of the inside of a scroll carbonized by a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago.
What do a wedding necklace, Polish savory dumplings and a photo of Hungary’s first astronaut have in common.
Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger when an implanted device zapped their spinal cord.
Jeff Bezos' rocket company has given NASA a brief taste of the moon's gravity without straying too far from home.
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the far side.
Red wolves once ranged far and wide across the U_S_, helping them earn the nickname “America's wolf.”.
The mayor of Santorini says that the hundreds of earthquakes that have rattled Greek islands on the Aegean Sea are a “seismic swarm” and could continue for weeks before eventually diminishing.
The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States dropped dramatically this year even as federal officials move to extend protections for the beloved pollinator.
The popular Greek holiday island of Santorini is taking emergency measures in response to intense seismic activity.
A series of earthquakes near the Greek island of Santorini have led authorities to shut down schools, dispatch rescue teams with sniffer dogs and sent instructions to residents including a request to drain their swimming pools.
A new study finds that rat infestation in many of the world’s cities appears to be soaring, especially in Washington.
The unsolved death of a teenager in 1977 haunted students and staff at Honolulu's McKinley High School for nearly half a century.
India doubled its tiger population in a little over a decade by protecting the big cats from poaching and habitat loss, ensuring they have enough prey, reducing human-wildlife conflict, and increasing communities’ living standards near tiger areas.
An arctic blast that brought a rare snowfall to northern Florida last week left green sea turtles as far south as St. Augustine suffering from a condition known as cold stunning.
Two-thirds of animal and plant populations are declining in genetic diversity, which makes it harder to adapt to environmental changes.
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world.
A quick scientific study finds that human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the recent devastating Southern California wildfires.
Experts say more studies may also reveal how the gut can be manipulated to treat cancer or answer why cancer behaves differently in everyone affected.
The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory.
An Alabama woman is thriving a record 61 days and counting after receiving a pig kidney, a new milestone in the quest for animal-to-human transplants.
Officials say they have recaptured the final four monkeys who escaped two months ago from a South Carolina compound that breeds them for medical research.
Taiwan plans to cull up to 120,000 green iguanas, with supporters urging humane methods to bring down the animal's population, which is wreaking havoc on the island's agricultural sector.
Five elephants at a Colorado zoo may be “majestic” but do not have the legal right to pursue their release since they aren't human.
U.S. President Donald Trump's declaration in an inauguration speech that Americans “split the atom” prompted vexed social media posts on Tuesday by New Zealanders, who said the achievement belonged to a pioneering scientist revered in his homeland.
Flooded cornfields near the Tennessee River in northern Alabama are a paradise for birders who flock to see tens of thousands of migrating sandhill cranes every winter.
Emails and videos of burned buildings in Los Angeles versus those still standing have been flying back and forth among architects, builders and fire safety specialists around the world.
IMSA arranged for 27 high school students who excel in STEM programs to come to the speedway to educate the teens on how many opportunities exist in motorsports for those interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
SpaceX suspects a fire may have caused its Starship to break apart during liftoff and send trails of flaming debris near the Caribbean.
Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating hereditary disorder that strikes in the prime of life.
Officials at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park are bracing for crowds eager to get a glimpse of lava fountaining from an eruption.
Genetic evidence from a late Iron Age cemetery in southern Britain shows that women were closely related while unrelated men tended to come into the community from elsewhere, likely after marriage.
A nonprofit research lab is getting attention from some wealthy tech philanthropists.
A polar vortex that has hit much of the U.S. with ice and snow has dealt a glancing blow to Florida and its manatee population.
Aircraft battling fires raging through the Los Angeles area are dropping more than water: Hundreds of thousands of gallons of hot-pink fire suppressant have been dumped ahead of the flames in a desperate effort to stop them before they destroy more neighborhoods.
The National Weather Service’s Los Angeles page screams ‘Particularly Dangerous Situation’ in hot pink letters against a gray background.
New research suggests that Americans' risk for developing dementia over a lifetime may be higher than previously thought.
Blue Origin will try again to launch its massive new rocket as early as Thursday after calling off the debut launch because of ice buildup in critical plumbing.
Global temperatures in 2024 soared to yet another record level, but this time it was such a big jump that Earth temporarily passed a major symbolic climate threshold.
A long-awaited La Nina has finally appeared, but meteorologists say the periodic cooling of Pacific Ocean waters is weak and unlikely to cause as many weather problems as usual.
An international team of scientists say they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 miles to Antarctic bedrock to reach ice that's at least 1.2 million years old.
New research shows about a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction.
Rescuers in the freezing, high-altitude Tibet region in western China searched a second day for any remaining victims of a deadly earthquake that struck near a holy city for Tibetan Buddhists, before shifting their focus to resettling the survivors.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Democratic philanthropist George Soros and actor-director Denzel Washington were awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor.
Meteorologists forecast a strong snow and ice storm followed by brutally cold conditions will soon smack the eastern two-thirds of the United States.
A great gray owl and a snowy owl are being treated by experts after being rescued by a northern Minnesota woman.
The remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth uncovered by melting permafrost have been unveiled to the public by researchers in Russia’s Siberia region.
A biologist hid 350 audio monitors across Costa Rica’s tropical rainforests to spy on endangered spider monkeys in order to help protect them.
New discoveries from several archaeological sites in North and South America suggest that ancient people first arrived in the New World much earlier than scientists once thought.
Scholars are hailing the discovery of a fossilized mastodon jaw discovered by a man who spotted two giant teeth while gardening at his upstate New York home this year.
The federal government says that two endangered whales have been spotted entangled in fishing gear off Massachusetts and that one is likely to die from its injuries.
A Japanese space startup says its second attempt to launch a rocket carrying satellites into orbit had been aborted minutes after liftoff.
Scientists in China have almost finished building a massive underground detector to sniff out mysterious particles called neutrinos.
Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
President-elect Donald Trump seemed to entertain the discredited theory that vaccines cause autism as he answered questions from journalists Monday at his Mar-a-Lago club.
A giant salamander that evolved on the supercontinent Pangaea and outlived the dinosaurs has been proposed for federal protection by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Scientists suspect the first complete specimen ever recorded of the world’s rarest whale died from head injuries.
Dr. Mei Rui began playing the piano at age three and was accepted into the prestigious Shanghai Conservatory of Music at age 6. Today, she is a brain researcher in the Texas Medical Center, having earned dual degrees in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Music. Watch her full interview with Houston Life's Derrick Shore to learn more about her work in music and medicine -- and why she believes classical musical is beneficial to the brain.
