Daylight Saving Time, or DST, is the practice of advancing clocks to extend evening daylight. According to Britannica, Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the United States, formulated ...

Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of ...

The focus on the comet known as 3I/ATLAS has fueled long-time speculations on whether there could be aliens present on the ...

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Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, ...

Cooking can be a relaxing, meditative act—that is, until your eyes start to sting unbearably. Cutting an onion often leads to an involuntary stream of tears, but a new scientific discovery has ...

This fall, every full moon will be a supermoon. Here’s how often it happens—and why. A super “blue” moon rises above Monsaraz Castle in Portugal’s Dark Sky Alqueva reserve. October, November, and ...

WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. — The pumpkin in Tony Scott's backyard weighs almost as much as a small car. He's been tending to it for months, feeding it fertilizer and covering it with a blanket at night to ...

WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — The pumpkin in Tony Scott’s backyard weighs almost as much as a small car. He’s been tending to it for months, feeding it fertilizer and covering it with a blanket at ...

On the morning of October 21, 1966, the Welsh mining village of Aberfan was struck by one of Britain’s most harrowing peacetime disasters. After days of heavy rain, a slag heap collapsed off a ...

Dr. Frank is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester. A few years ago, on a flight, I was seated next to a man in his mid-20s. He looked at the astrobiology textbook I was reading ...

The late primatologist and advocate became a global face of field research and environmental protection across the continent, and opened doors for women. British primatologist Jane Goodall, who died ...