A sudden halt to Earth’s spin would unleash destructive winds, quakes, and tsunamis while ending the protective magnetic ...

California-based startup Reflect Orbital aims to build a swarm of 4,000 giant mirrors in low Earth orbit to "sell sunlight" to customers at night. Experts warn that the mirrors could mess with ...

2024 may have been Earth's hottest year in at least 125,000 years, according to a grim climate report published Wednesday (Oct. 29) that describes our world as "on the brink" and warns its "vital ...

Some spiders don’t just spin webs — they listen through them. Researchers found that orb-weavers can sense vibrations on ...

The story of Atlantic hurricanes is treading a familiar — and frightening — path: Climate change is fueling huge, slow-moving, rain-drenching storms.

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic ...

If you know what you’re looking for, you can see it through the window on the second floor of Knauss Hall. In the ...

Jake Bauers corrals a sharp ground ball from Max Muncy to make a run-saving play and end the Dodgers' threat in the bottom of the 3rd ...

The city councilor is prepared to take the helm in Somerville and get the wheels of government spinning in the city again. Willie Burnley Jr. and Jake Wilson, the two finalists in the race for mayor ...

Abstract: We demonstrate a nearly 30-fold enhancement in brightness and a Purcell-enhanced radiative lifetime of Erbium $(Er^{3+})$ doped in colloidally synthesized ...

"With these probability maps, we can push asteroids away while preventing them from returning on an impact trajectory, protecting the Earth in the long run." When it comes to saving Earth from a ...