From 2019 through 2021, just over 99% of the lakes in the U.S. were exposed to wildfire smoke for at least one day. Now, scientists want to know how all that smoke impacts our lakes. What’s happening? A new study by nearly two dozen authors, including experts in chemistry, geography, and ecology, sheds light on […]
Hurricane Beryl is breaking records as it wreaks havoc in the southeastern Caribbean. On Sunday, Beryl became the first Category 4 storm ever to form in the Atlantic Ocean in the month of June. No storm has reached Category 4 intensity so early in the hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. […]
A Southwest Airlines passenger jet flew so low over Yukon early Wednesday morning that it triggered an altitude alert at Oklahoma City’s Will Rogers World Airport and had locals asking about it on social media. Just after midnight Wednesday, the flight from Las Vegas had been cleared to land on a visual approach from the […]
A Southwest Airlines passenger jet flew so low over Yukon early Wednesday morning that it triggered an altitude alert at Oklahoma City’s Will Rogers World Airport and had locals asking about it on social media. Just after midnight Wednesday, the flight from Las Vegas had been cleared to land on a visual approach from the […]
Medical worker examining female patient through stethoscope in ICU. Healthcare professional is looking at sick woman in hospital. They are wearing protective face mask during COVID-19 pandemic. Chances are, by now you know that COVID-19 is serious. But just in case you didn’t—or if you didn’t want to believe it—new data shows that even mild […]
In the basement of a Centralia funeral home in a dark hallway off the embalming room, tucked inside a nook behind two steel plates and a door, a visitor found three disembodied, neatly wrapped human legs, two of them marked with names and dated to the 1960s. The discovery stunned property owner Cindy Hansen, who […]
For more than a century, Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity has provided a surprisingly accurate framework for understanding the gravitational machinations of the universe. However, when observing data approaching the “superhorizon,” galaxies traveling so fast they approach the speed of light, inconsistencies have shown that they theory might need a cosmological extension of sorts. […]
There were few things Beth Sternlieb’s Los Angeles doctors could say with certainty about her baffling illness, but this much was clear: Although manageable for years, it had worsened dramatically. For nearly two decades Sternlieb had been plagued by flu-like episodes that began with a headache and abdominal pain accompanied by fatigue, muscle aches and […]
There were few things Beth Sternlieb’s Los Angeles doctors could say with certainty about her baffling illness, but this much was clear: Although manageable for years, it had worsened dramatically. For nearly two decades Sternlieb had been plagued by flu-like episodes that began with a headache and abdominal pain accompanied by fatigue, muscle aches and […]
“Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links.” This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. The case of the elusive D.B. Cooper stands as aviation’s most captivating unsolved mystery since Amelia Earhart vanished without a trace. For over half a century, the identity of the infamous skyjacker, who […]
PayPal‘s (NASDAQ: PYPL) stock closed at its all-time high of $308.53 on July 23, 2021. At the time, the digital payment provider dazzled the bulls with its robust growth rates and its plans to nearly double its number of active accounts from 377 million in 2020 to 750 million in 2025. It also aimed to […]
A senior Hamas official on Thursday backed away from an earlier, groundbreaking comment that Hamas could recognize the state of Israel and that Israelis should have rights “but not at the expense” of Palestinians or other groups. Mousa Abu Marzouk cited a “misunderstanding of media statements” a day after he told the Washington-based Al-Monitor that […]