2+ hour, 58+ min ago  (159+ words) Extreme weather events and rising seas are putting precious heritage sites around the world in harm's way....

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (346+ words) Daylight saving time, that yearly yawn-a-thon that kicks in each spring, may not just affect our bodies temporarily. New evidence suggests that winding our clocks forward in spring and backward in autumn is taking a toll on some aspects of…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (319+ words) Work at Boston's Museum of Science isn't always glamorous. Someone's gotta clean the lizard boogers. In a new behind-the-scenes video, a museum employee cheerfully shares their experience cleaning snot from the glass of Rocky the chuckwalla's enclosure. The white stuff…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago  (628+ words) Tiny bones locked in stone for millions of years have finally told their sad story. The 150-million-year-old fossils belong to a pair of pterosaur hatchlings, both of whom appear to have perished in a spectacularly violent weather event, paleontologists have…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago  (482+ words) Two of Arizona's most famous landmarks may be linked by cosmic violence: the asteroid that gouged out Meteor Crater may have also caused the formation of an ancient lake in the Grand Canyon. This surprising connection between Arizona's world-renowned geological…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago  (710+ words) A person in Arizona has died from the plague, local health officials reported on Friday. This marks the first such death in this region in 18 years. But it's a stark reminder that this historic disease, though rare nowadays, is not…...