New Jersey Gov. Sherrill denied access to North Jersey immigration detention center as hunger strike enters fourth day
About 300 protesters demanded to see the governor as they called attention to conditions inside of Delaney Hall in Newark.
Chaos after queen loss reveals the wasps that keep colonies running
When the loss of a queen wasp triggers a power struggle and social turmoil, colonies can survive the upheaval thanks to helpful wasps that pick up the slack, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.
The Best Lakeside Romance Books for a Summer Escape
Guest post written by The Cherry Blossom Boathouse author Laura BloomLaura Bloom is a British author who writes swoon-worthy stories full of heat, heart, and a healthy dose of emotional chaos. When she’s not wrangling characters on the page, she’s wrangling construction jargon as a content and PR specialist for the building industry. About The Cherry Blossom Boathouse: The Cherry Blossom Boathouse is a small-town sweet and spicy bookshop romance about a British woman who falls into a lake, builds […]
When a Soviet rover went silent on the Moon in 1971, scientists assumed it was gone for good — but nearly forty years later, the reflector strapped to its back answered a laser pulse from Earth as if no time had passed at all
On November 17, 1970, a Soviet unmanned mission called Luna 17 landed on the Sea of Rains, a vast basalt plain on the near side of the Moon. The lander deployed a remote-controlled rover called Lunokhod 1, the first robotic vehicle ever to operate on the surface of another world. The rover was, by every […]
What is the blue-white star next to the moon tonight?
Don’t miss Spica greet the waxing moon in the southern sky on May 26
Live Updates: Trump to give Memorial Day remarks at Arlington National Cemetery
President Donald Trump is expected to deliver remarks at Arlington National Cemetery as the U.S. pays tribute to fallen U.S. service members, with more ceremonies schedule in Washington, D.C., New York and across the country.
Overview and Live Results: Texas Primary Runoff Elections
Can Sen. Cornyn survive after Trump’s endorsement of Paxton? There are also 17 U.S. House runoffs, with some yielding a heavy November favorite
New mathematical model predicts global population crash by 2064
In a new open-access study that I published with my late colleague Kostya Trachenko from Queen Mary University of London, I propose a surprisingly simple nonlinear mathematical equation that unifies 12,000 …
SpaceX launches rocket from Cape Canaveral on Memorial Day morning. See photos
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of Starlink satellites on Memorial Day morning from Florida. See the photos.
Texas GOP Senate candidates Paxton and Cornyn in final day of campaign
Texas Republican Senate candidates Sen. John Cornyn and state Attorney General Ken Paxton are going to be scarcely visible in public on the last day of campaigning ahead of Tuesday’s runoff.