Music could help ease pain from surgery or illness. Scientists are listening
Nurse Rod Salaysay works with all kinds of instruments in the hospital: a thermometer, a stethoscope and sometimes his guitar and ukulele.In the recovery...
How to watch the Orionid meteor shower, debris of Halley’s comet
The Orionids — one of two major meteor showers caused by remnants from Halley’s comet — will peak with the arrival of a new...
2 green comets shine bright. How to spot them in the night sky
NEW YORK (AP) — Two bright green comets are streaming through the skies and are visible to skygazers in the Northern Hemisphere.Both hail from...
UN agency says C02 levels hit record high last year, causing more extreme weather
GENEVA (AP) — Heat-trapping carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere jumped by the highest amount on record last year, soaring to a level not...
Indonesia’s Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano unleashes new burst of hot ash
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki, one of Indonesia’s most active volcanoes, erupted for a second straight day Wednesday, spewing towering columns...
Reviving this African game reserve meant catching and transporting hundreds of wild animals
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Fifty years ago, Banhine National Park in Mozambique was a wildlife haven, teeming with herds of giraffe, buffalo...
Arctic seals and more than half of bird species are in trouble on latest...
Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction by climate change and more than half of bird species around the world are declining under...
The Nobel Prize in chemistry will be announced Wednesday
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is announcing the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday.There have been 116 chemistry prizes given to...
The Nobel Prize in physics is to be announced Tuesday
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced Tuesday, the second award to be revealed this year by the Royal Swedish Academy...
EF5 tornado that killed 3 in North Dakota was the nation’s first in 12...
A deadly tornado that tore across southeastern North Dakota this summer has been upgraded to an EF5 with winds topping 200 mph (322 kph),...
