Science

Gather round. Today’s puzzles are all about going in circles. Onward with the revolution! 1. Roll with it Imagine a weight is being rolled along on logs, as below. The...

NEW YORK — If rising oceans aren’t worry enough, add this to the risks New York City faces: The metropolis is slowly sinking under the weight of its skyscrapers, homes,...

The legendary Japanese astronomer Koichi Itagaki made a dazzling discovery recently, capturing observations of a visible supernova so close to Earth that astronomers have been able to spot it with...

Looks can be deceiving. That’s a line that has been uttered here and there for decades, maybe even hundreds of years. However, it seems that line has never been truer...

Scientists observed unusual behavior in an octopus that they said looked similar to it waking up from a nightmare. The cephalopod, named Costello, was filmed 24 hours a day in...

Biologists with the National Park Service discovered a litter of recently birthed mountain lion kittens in the Simi Hills, west of Los Angeles.  The kittens, now identified as P-113, P-114,...

Champagne is a very fancy drink, and part of what makes it so fancy is the way that it bubbles so elegantly. For decades scientists have wondered why the drink...

Make a wish upon a star — while you still can. Scientists are warning that due to light pollution, human’s ability to see the cosmos at night could be wiped...

NASA scientists have found strong evidence of a polar cyclone on Uranus for the first time.  Researchers examined radio waves emitted from the ice giant and detected the phenomenon at...

A baby raccoon had to be euthanized after a woman brought it into a pet store to have its nails cut and let people kiss it, authorities said. The woman...