Science

The edge of the observable universe is about 270,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles away.If you drive at a steady 65 miles per hour,...

Then, having insisted he doesn’t yet know what the last book will be since it’s not done, he hurries on:...

Although an Augustóbriga aqueduct, paved roads and thermal baths were sacrificed to the dam, a second-century A.D. temple, known as...

In December 1988, two Department of Transportation workers in north Georgia found a young woman’s body on Interstate 59 in...

GEORGETOWN, Calif. — Waves of fire swept through the Sierra Nevada forest, churning up smoke and leaving charred vegetation behind...

Fleets of tiny translucent umbrellas, each about the size of a lentil, waft through the waters of the Mediterranean Sea....

WELLS, Nev. — Horace Smith blew up a lot of beaver dams in his life.A rancher here in northeastern Nevada,...

In August, a couple of days before his 68th birthday, Leslie Scott, a cattle rancher in Vivian, S.D., went to...

YAKIMA, Wash. — The water managers of the Yakima River basin in arid Central Washington know what it’s like to...

Nicole Kramaritsch of Roxbury, N.J., has 46 bags just sitting in her garage. Brian Otto has 101 of them, so...