Category science

“Killer electrons” stashed in radiation belts around Earth could be dislodged by lightning to create a game of “cosmic pinball” that influences space weather around our planet.

The Endurance shipwreck spent 107 years submerged in Antarctic waters before being rediscovered and later scanned in 3D.

In pigs, the device detected overdoses and administered naloxone. It could also alert emergency services to respond.

Geoenvironmental scientist Hiroto Nagai used publicly available climate data from the North and South poles to compose an ominous-sounding chamber music piece.

Four “potentially hazardous” space rocks, which are between 100 and 580 feet across, will all make their closest approaches to Earth within less than 12 hours of one another on Thursday (Oct. 24). Two of them were only discovered earlier…

U.S. health officials are investigating a multi-state outbreak of bacterial infections that has been linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders.

Drones with lasers revealed hidden urban centers that may have aided trade and travel through mountainous regions during medieval times.

Polar bears have been exposed to more viruses, bacteria and parasites in recent decades, a new study shows, possibly acquiring the germs in their diet.

A fiery meteor shot across the sky above the Great Lakes on Monday (Oct. 21) just after sunset, stunning witnesses from Michigan to New York, Kentucky and North Carolina.

Intelsat 39 being launched from French Guiana aboard an Ariane 5 rocket in 2019.