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In Their Final Moments, a Pompeii Family Fought to Survive

One day in the year 79, Pompeii came under fire. The explosion of nearby Mount Vesuvius sent a mushroom cloud

After looping through space for 53 years, a wayward Soviet spacecraft called Kosmos-482 returned to Earth, entering the dense layers

Fifteen states sued the Trump administration over its declaration of an “energy emergency,” arguing that there is no emergency and

Public health officials in Los Angeles County have declared an outbreak of hepatitis A, a highly contagious liver infection driven

Mexico City’s small urban farms — known locally as chinampas — practice a sort of agriculture in reverse: instead of

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Thursday it would stop tracking the cost of the country’s most expensive

The egg drop challenge is an annual rite of passage for many students learning about physics: Swaddle an egg in

In 2023, sewage plants in Maryland started to make a troubling discovery. Harmful “forever chemicals” were contaminating the state’s sewage,

The Trump administration has moved to end federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken, a showy grouse with the misfortune

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has repeatedly questioned the safety of mRNA vaccines against Covid-19. Scientists with funding from