Every lobster trap set off the coast of Maine must carry a small plastic tag, usually stamped with a license number, a year ...

The statistical association is clear: tooth decay and infected gums are associated with higher rates of heart disease and all ...

Four experimental nuclear reactors have started self-sustaining chain reactions on U.S. soil in a single month, clearing a symbolic July 4 deadline set by the Trump administration and, backers say, ...

One of the quietest Apollo experiments is still doing science without a battery, a radio, or a moving part. It is not a telescope on the Moon. It is not a buried instrument or a forgotten antenna. It ...

A Pennsylvania farm landscape near Hughesville. This representative photograph does not show Mervin Raudabaugh's two Cumberland County properties. Photo by Phil Evenden via Pexels. An 86-year-old ...

Namibia is one of the driest countries in Africa, and its capital sits far from any river that runs all year. According to Veolia, one of the companies that helps run the plant, the region gets around ...

Put a teaspoon into biologically active forest soil and the resulting sample can contain more microorganisms than there are humans on Earth. An Atlantic overview of soil microbiology states the ...

Space does not begin at a clean edge where Earth’s air abruptly stops. The atmosphere thins continuously, molecule by molecule, until its outermost hydrogen becomes almost indistinguishable from the ...

Lake Vostok is one of the strangest lakes on Earth because, for most purposes, Earth has hidden it from itself. It lies under the central East Antarctic Ice Sheet, near Russia’s Vostok Station, ...

Four thousand metres down, in the darkest and quietest part of the central Pacific Ocean, there is a region the size of the continental United States where the seafloor is scattered with small dark ...

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. About 45 percent of people who smoke a ...

Chimborazo in Ecuador, whose summit is the surface point farthest from Earth's center. Photo by April Beasley via Pexels. Mount Everest, Mauna Kea and Chimborazo can each be called Earth’s tallest ...