For the first time, scientists have confirmed that Native Americans used a hallucinogenic drug while painting rock art, according to a new study.
Author: Doyle Rice, USA TODAY
‘Real eye-opener’: Microplastic pollution discovered in snow near top of Mount Everest
Microplastic pollution is apparently everywhere: It’s in the ocean, it’s in our food and now we know it’s atop the highest peak in the world: Mount Everest.
Famed Puerto Rico radio telescope at Arecibo Observatory, hugely important to scientific research for more than 50 years, to be demolished
For 57 years, Arecibo telescope aided radio astronomy, planetary, solar system and geospace research, and the search for extraterrestrial life.
A mid-November treat: Catch the Leonid meteor shower Monday night
Shooting stars will make an appearance in the night sky late Monday night and early Tuesday morning with the peak of the Leonid meteor shower.
‘Extremely dangerous’ Hurricane Iota slams Central America as Category 4 storm, threatens to bring ‘catastrophic’ damage
Hurricane Iota made landfall at 10:40 p.m. EST in Nicaragua, with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph, about 2 mph shy of Category 5 status.
Eta, Theta and now Iota: Tropical storm is brewing in the Caribbean, forecast to approach Central America as a hurricane
Iota was brewing in the Caribbean Sea early Saturday and is expected to approach Central America as a major Category 3 hurricane by next week.
‘Past a point of no return’: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero still won’t stop global warming, study says
Even if greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced to zero, global temps may continue to rise for centuries. But some experts questioned the study.
Searching for ‘Planet X,’ scientists discover distant ‘Goblin’ object billions of miles beyond Pluto
The object has an orbit that hints at an even-farther-out “Super-Earth” or larger “Planet X” could be lurking out there.
When will this relentless Atlantic hurricane season finally end?
A record-breaking 29 storms into this seemingly endless hurricane season, storm-battered residents are wondering when it will finally be over.
Tropical Storm Eta soaks South Florida, could approach Gulf Coast this week; Subtropical Storm Theta forms in Atlantic
Eta could reach Category 1 hurricane strength later Monday as it spins over the Gulf. And it could approach Florida’s Gulf Coast later this week.