Elizabeth Kuelbs writes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for children and adults, often with an emphasis on the natural world ...

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Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific ...

About nine million years ago, a hybridization involving the lineage of another farmers market star gave rise to the ...

In fact, only three factors can be used to define a black hole: its mass, its angular momentum and its electric charge. In ...

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A vector ecologist explains the complexities of tracking tick-borne diseases like Lyme in a climate-changed world ...

Russia’s magnitude 8.8 earthquake spawned serious tsunami warnings, but waves have been moderate so far. Here’s the ...

The strongest earthquake ever recorded, a magnitude 9.5, struck Chile’s southern coast in 1960. Below is a list and details ...

Emma R. Hasson is a Ph.D. candidate in mathematics at the City University of New York Graduate Center with expertise in math ...

The immediate harms of extreme heat are well documented, but a growing body of research suggests that heatstroke may have ...

A relatively small detector caught neutrinos from a nuclear reactor using a technique known as coherent scattering ...