Sydney Anderson

Catnip has long been famous for sending house cats into playful frenzies, but new research suggests the humble herb may also help combat one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases.

For decades, scientists have warned that Earth's ultimate fate appeared all but certain: when the sun exhausts its hydrogen fuel roughly 5 billion years from now, it will expand into a massive red giant, engulfing the inner planets and potentially consuming Earth in the process.

A remote island in Lake Michigan is becoming an unlikely proving ground for the future of renewable energy, as researchers test whether freshwater waves can generate reliable electricity for communities vulnerable to power outages.

Artificial intelligence has already shown it can write code, summarize research, and generate images.

Marine biologists have confirmed the first established breeding colonies of invasive Manila clams along the northeastern U.S. coastline, marking the species' arrival in the last major region of the Northern Hemisphere where it had not previously become established.

North Texas doesn't flood because it rains hard. It floods because the combination of clay-heavy soils, dense urban impervious cover, flat terrain, and a storm drainage infrastructure that has never kept pace with the region's explosive population growth creates a near-perfect recipe for water with nowhere to go. On the evening of Saturday, June 7, 2026, that equation played out again when a strong line of storms pushed northeast through the southern Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, triggering a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Dallas and Ellis counties and sending rainfall rates briefly to 3 inches per hour — a rate that FOX 4 Dallas reported was more than capable of rapidly overwhelming urban drainage systems across the area.

Denver markets itself on outdoor lifestyle: hiking, cycling, running, and the Front Range's legendary blue skies. What July 2026 has made impossible to ignore is the increasingly wide gap between that marketing and the documented atmospheric reality. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) and the Regional Air Quality Council have issued Ozone Action Day Alerts on at least six separate days in July alone — covering the Denver-Boulder metro, Fort Collins, Greeley, and the entire Front Range Urban Corridor from Douglas County north to Larimer and Weld counties. The alerts have cited both ozone formed by summer heat and vehicular emissions, and particle pollution elevated by wildfire smoke drifting across the region from fires to the west and north.

Jacksonville, Florida, is the largest city by area in the continental United States, a sprawling, river-defined metro of nearly 1 million people in Duval County that has, as local emergency managers are quick to note, "a false sense of security"

The planet may have crossed a major climate milestone earlier than scientists thought, according to a new study that used centuries-old records hidden inside ancient sea sponges.

A mysterious monkey with striking pinkish-orange lips has finally been confirmed as a new species after spending decades hidden high in the dense rainforest canopy of the Democratic Republic of Congo, offering scientists fresh evidence that some of Earth's greatest biodiversity remains undocumented.