By REUTERS Several powerful tornadoes tore through northern Alabama on Thursday, killing at least five people, injuring dozens of others, and destroying entire neighborhoods. The five confirmed fatalities were in Ohatchee,…
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By Gege Li This amazing photograph was taken by James Crombie in Ireland. It shows a murmuration of thousands of starlings acting like a single giant…
By Elias Marat In recent years, Australia’s most populous state of New South Wales (NSW) has faced everything from drought to brushfires, a pandemic, a recent all-consuming…
By Brandon Specktor Mice in the cabinets. Mice in the streets. Thousands upon thousands of mice in the barn, pooing so much it takes six…
By KATHERINE RODRIGUEZ A 7.0 preliminary magnitude earthquake struck Japan off the coast of Ishinomaki, 65 miles from the 9.0 earthquake that struck Fukushima ten years…
By Tyler Durden Several Mid-Atlantic and Northeast states are under “Red Flag Warning” on Sunday afternoon, which means critical fire weather conditions are underway. With…
By Tyler Durden The largest earthquake ever recorded in Japan struck ten years ago today. The 9.0-magnitude quake triggered a devastating tsunami, killing more than…
By Tyler Durden No, this is not The Onion… Weather-battered Texas can’t catch a break. Last month, the Lone Star State experienced a “historic” plunge…
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER CAPTION A group of scientists at the University of Chicago discovered that certain bacteria deliberately use the rules of quantum…
By James Murphy A member of the Oregon House of Representatives has introduced a bill that would ban the sale and use of petroleum-based diesel…
By TESSA KOUMOUNDOUROS While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like pages of a book,…
By Mike Wall A fireball blazed across the skies of southern England Sunday night (Feb. 28), and it likely dropped singed hunks of cosmic rock…
By MICHELLE STARR A new test of cephalopod smarts has reinforced how important it is for us humans to not underestimate animal intelligence. Cuttlefish have…
By Amy Barrett Scientists say they have confirmed the existence of space hurricanes after analyzing a 1,000km-wide swirling mass of plasma spotted hundreds of kilometers…
By F. William Engdahl In the unfolding extreme winter tragedy in Texas as well as many other regions of the United States not prepared for…
By Richard Moorhead A gray wolf (canis lupus) has been observed in counties of California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range, with the animal returning to territory…
By Eric Worrall When the woke out woke the woke. Back in December, Google fired AI Ethics Unit co-leader Timnit Gebru, in relation to her…
By M. Dowling Scientists are considering making the Sahara into a giant solar farm. One of the unintended consequences of solar panels in the desert,…