The school day had just ended at Isaac Dickson Elementary School in Asheville, North Carolina.  Most students had left, and the ones in the school's "supervised homework help" p...

Humans have flown to the Moon and may even make it to Mars. But providing clean water to all remains a challenge.  The World Health Organization estimates that one in three peop...

A fish with the body of a shark and the face of a pig may sound like something straight out of a science fiction movie. But that precisely describes the dead shark retrieved fro...

La Palma, one of Spain's Canary Islands, has been feeling the wrath of the Cumbre Vieja volcano since September 19, 2021.  The explosive volcano, which came to life shortly afte...

When Jennifer Johnson and her team embarked on their annual quest to survey the sturgeon population in the Detroit River in mid-April 2021, they had fully expected to find some ...

On August 8, 2021, the United Nations'  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its first assessment of climate science since 2013. The news was not good. The ...