When lightning strikes, it superheats the air around it and creates a shock wave that we hear as thunder. But…
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Four words in a Hank Green video—“I appreciate the pushback”—were enough to make some viewers suspect the voice of artificial…
On Wednesday the U.S. Senate confirmed Erica Schwartz to head the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Her confirmation gives…
Lindsay Clancy, a 35-year-old former nurse, is on trial in Massachusetts for the murder of her three young children in…
Discovered in 2004 while traveling on an alarming potential collision course with our planet, the near-Earth asteroid Apophis is now…
On July 20, 1976, NASA’s Viking 1 lander became the first spacecraft to safely touch down on Mars. Shortly after,…