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Using hydrogen to heat homes is inefficient and expensive, a report finds, contradicting the government.

A report on species' recovery highlights the positive impact of protection and rewilding.

As Hurricane Ian makes its way through the Caribbean towards the US - we ask if climate change is making these storms more severe?

NASA's DART spacecraft is no more, but its final view is incredible.

SpaceX's Crew-5 astronaut mission for NASA remains on target to launch next week, provided Mother Nature cooperates.

Many useful members of this "iconic" plant family are at risk of extinction, according to a study.

The mission was designed to test whether a probe could knock a hazardous space rock away from a crash course with Earth.

For the first time in history, a spacecraft from Earth has crashed into an asteroid to test a way to save our planet from extinction.

Stronger hurricanes that are re-energized by jet stream winds are twice as likely to cross the Atlantic and wreak havoc in Europe than weaker ones, new research has found.

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Shudder documentary series Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror has only four episodes to dig into everything its title implies—so instead of a rapid-fire encyclopedia, it wisely aims to be more of a curated cross-section focusing on specific moments and trends in horror history. Impeccable editing and a…

With properties like Scream, Dawson’s Creek, and The Vampire Diaries, writer Kevin Williamson has always been able to tap into a collective understanding. But a passion for movies or teen angst has nothing on the fear of covid-19, and that’s what Williamson deals with in Sick, a new film from director John Hyams,…

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Nicki Minaj took to Instagram to share that the music video for her song “Likkle Miss Remix” featuring dancehall artist Skeng has been age-restricted on YouTube. While that would definitely upset most artists, Minaj claims that the age-restriction is a plot to prevent her from raking in views.

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The flight from LAX to DFW did not go as planned. Emerson Collins, an actor from Los Angeles, remembers the noises started before the plane even took off: strange grumblings, a weird sound like somebody was on the verge of throwing up. They were coming from the plane’s loudspeaker. Flight attendants assured…

NASA’s DART spacecraft is on track to hit a non-threatening asteroid today at 7:14 p.m. ET, in what is an important demonstration of a planetary defense strategy. But space is hard, and DART, traveling at 15,000 miles per hour, could whiz past the 520-foot-wide object. Here’s what would happen should that unlucky…

International crime-fighting agency Interpol reportedly issued a notice instructing law enforcement agencies worldwide to arrest Terraform Labs co-founder and CEO Do Kwon. Somehow, Kwon is still trying to convince the world, and likely himself, that he’s in fact, not on the run.

When it comes to sexual competition, males have the star role. Clashing bodies, locking horns, biting and kicking are all considered fair play. Since these behaviors are so salient and robust, most studies focus on male behavior, leaving females aside.

With the Pixel Watch looming around the corner, folks have been wondering what’s going on with Fitbit now that Google’s officially acquired the brand. According to an updated support page, it appears there’s account consolidation on the horizon.

Later today, NASA’s DART spacecraft will attempt to smash into a non-threatening asteroid. It’s one of the most important things we’ve done in space—if not the most important thing—as this experiment to deflect a non-threatening asteroid could eventually result in a robust and effective planetary defense strategy for…

Theorists at the University of Pittsburgh and Swansea University have shown that recent experimental results from the CERN collider give strong evidence for a new form of matter.

For the first time, scientists will be able to test therapeutics for a group of rare neurodegenerative diseases that affect infants and young children, thanks to a new research model created by scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Their results are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara, the University of Maryland, and the University of Washington have found an answer to the longstanding physics question: How do interparticle interactions affect dynamical localization?