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China plans to send container ships along Russia’s northern coast, reviving environmental concerns about the fragile polar region

Music and math often come together in ways we don’t expect

From eclipse awe to vaccine debate, earthquake recovery and coffee’s benefits

The U.S. is spending millions to try to control feral hogs, but are those efforts in vain?

Giants have featured in stories for millennia, but the reason why they don’t exist helps explain the natural world

Hawaii rarely sees direct hurricane hits—if Lala strengthens, it will be just the third recorded hurricane to make landfall there

This extreme rain was deadly, with at least eight people killed and many others stranded

This state, which has seen more than 200 twisters this year, could beat Texas’s all-time record of 244 tornadoes in 12 months

The creator of The X-Files discusses what Frankenstein elements are in the newly released director’s cut of The X-Files: I Want to Believe and how Mary Shelley’s classic influenced the movie’s story

A mathematician may have solved a 250-year-old question about whether every polygon contains a path home

Betelgeuse, the sky’s most famous red supergiant, is well studied but poorly understood

What if artificial intelligence is used to amplify human creativity rather than replace it?