I’ve been on holiday the first two weeks of this month so sorry for this tardy global weather extremes blog for this past June. Significant events include the intensifying drought in the south central ...

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WAUKESHA, Wis. — Over the past several decades, astronomers have put bookends on the 13.7 billion years that have elapsed since the Big Bang and the creation of our universe. At one end is the frozen ...

Who is ready to rock out with their socks on to the June 2011 new music releases? We are! June is packed full of pop/rock/punk fun, with new albums from All Time Low and Limp Bizkit, the latter who ...

This story was updated at 4:58 p.m. ET. The longest total lunar eclipse in 11 years occured Wednesday (June 15), turning the moon a dusky blood red that is amazing skywatchers around the world. See ...

Thursday, June 16, 2011: The moon turned a blood red over the Sossusvlei Desert Lodge on NamibRand Nature Reserve in Namibia in this stunning photo taken by skywatcher George Tucker on June 15, 2011. ...

Many Filipinos were taken by surprise by the heavy floods that hit the southern Philippine city of Davao recently. The Philippines is notorious for flash flood disasters, but Davao city is supposedly ...

As Nobel Prize winners gather this month to share their wisdom with younger researchers, Scientific American recalls some of the articles that Nobel laureates have published in our pages ...