Science & Environment

The Eclipse Was So Nice, They’re Doing It Twice

It is rare for a total solar eclipse to hit the same place twice — once every 366 years on average. In 2019, this...

A Harsh Mongolian Winter Leaves Millions of Livestock Dead

An unusually brutal winter in Mongolia has left much of the country’s grazing land frozen and snow-covered, starving or freezing millions of animals and...

Old Newspaper Stories Offer Clues to 19th-Century Shipwreck in Lake Michigan

On July 9, 1886, the steamship Milwaukee was crossing Lake Michigan on its way to the lakefront town of Muskegon, Mich., to pick up...

European Hyperloop Center aims to usher in new era of transportation in the Netherlands

A quarter-mile white steel tube running alongside a railway line in the windswept northern Netherlands could usher in a new era in the...

A Lunar Eclipse Warms Up the Moon for April’s Solar Eclipse

As the moon prepares to blot out the surface of our sun in two weeks, it’s warming up with a penumbral lunar eclipse on...

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