Satellite image shows Hurricane Laura swirling over the Gulf of Mexico on Aug.26 at 10 a.m. ET Editor’s Note: This story was updated at 2:21 p.m. ET to note that Laura has strengthened to a Category 4 storm, and to…
This artist’s illustration depicts a hypothetical dust ring orbiting KIC 8462852, also known as Boyajian’s Star or Tabby’s Star. A mysterious star whose repeated bouts of darkening might be due to “alien megastructures,” according to some researchers’ conjectures, may now…
Information might seem immaterial. But within a few short centuries, the total amount of digital bits produced annually by humanity could exceed the number of atoms on our planet and, even more unexpectedly, account for half of its mass. Those…
In an abrupt switch, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) changed its COVID-19 testing guidance to say that being exposed to a person with the disease doesn’t necessarily warrant a test if you’re not in a high-risk group…
Known as HL, the woman, from Batam in the Riau Islands, was helping to bring the dead body of a man home from hospital for his wake when she smeared saliva on her face and taunted doctors Woman ‘who smeared…
Antarctic ice shelves can disappear astonishingly fast — sometimes in minutes or hours — as meltwater surges through cracks in their surface. And as the atmosphere warms, this phenomenon may become more commonplace; at least half of the ice shelves…