On August 8, 2021, the United Nations'  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its first assessment of climate science since 2013. The news was not good. The ...

Most seafood lovers — animal or human — would find it hard to resist a tasty shrimp morsel. However, not Kit,  a mischievous sea otter that resides at California's Monterey Bay ...

The Henan Province in central China is a treasure trove of dinosaur eggs. However, the odd-looking black orb with a blue tint, presented to Fenglu Han and Haishui Jiang by a far...

The school day had just ended at Isaac Dickson Elementary School in Asheville, North Carolina.  Most students had left, and the ones in the school's "supervised homework help" p...

In 1893, Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen deliberately lodged his wooden ship in the sea ice north of Siberia, hoping that its natural drift would take him to the North Pole. Tho...

With over 4.1 billion people, or around 55 percent of the world's population, living in urban areas, cities and towns worldwide are getting increasingly congested. In addition t...

Thanks to the hard work of companies like SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, and Blue Origin, space tourism is well on its way to becoming a reality.  Now, California-based Orbital Assemb...

Few countries celebrate Halloween with as much fervor and excitement as the US.  Children and adults alike observe the occasion by dressing in creative costumes, gorging on cand...