47+ min ago   (842+ words) Powerful thunderstorms sweeping across southern Michigan Thursday afternoon and evening spawned the first tornado to hit Detroit since 1997. The storms damaged homes and businesses, leaving more than 300,000 people at least temporarily without power across the state. As of Friday afternoon,…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (837+ words) These are the words of a company that has spent the last four years trying, with limited success, to launder its image after a history as a Pentagon-funded weapons laboratory. They should be treated with the contempt they deserve. ICE’s…...

4+ day, 31+ min ago   (724+ words) The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launched at dawn on Sunday from Kennedy Space Center, is now well on its way to its final orbit about 1 million miles from Earth. The observatory’s solar panels and lower sun shade have been…...

5+ day, 57+ min ago   (309+ words) “And when you combine those two pieces of information, we can get at the heart of the nature of dark matter, this is matter that does not shine in normal light, so it’s invisible, and dark energy, which is some…...

1+ week, 52+ min ago   (950+ words) The death toll in the catastrophic flood that struck Nepal’s northern border region on Wednesday rose to at least 579 people as of 8 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time Friday. Another 1,924 are missing according to Nepal’s disaster relief agency. Five people have died…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (205+ words) In a disaster reminiscent of Love Canal, systematic survey and cleanup have begun of areas contaminated with materials containing the radiologically active element thorium, located in Niagara County, western New York state. These were initially identified by the U.S. Department of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1015+ words) The dangerous Hawk Fire continued to burn Monday outside Reno, the center of Nevada’s second-largest metropolitan area, after forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes and covering large sections of the city in smoke. By Monday afternoon, the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (423+ words) Jodrell Bank Observatory, home of the Lovell Telescope and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, faces the end of 70 years of scientific observation. Jodrell Bank’s radio telescopes gather radio waves that pass unimpeded through interstellar dust that blocks optical telescopes. It…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (738+ words) As early as June, the average temperature in Europe was 3.06 degrees Celsius above the long-term average, and the heatwaves have continued unabated ever since. The world’s oceans (with the exception of the polar regions) have also been warmer than ever…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (661+ words) Devastating heatwaves have gripped many parts of East Asia in recent weeks as the region experiences record-high temperatures during the Northern Hemisphere’s summer. Human-driven climate change is resulting in more extreme weather, which disproportionately impacts the working class and the…...