Tired of put-downs, Tennessee town corrects the record with play about the Scopes trial...
DAYTON, Tenn. (AP) — A small town in eastern Tennessee courted national publicity and attention a century ago when local leaders planned a test...
Breaking down the force of water in the Texas floods
Over just two hours, the Guadalupe River at Comfort, Texas, rose from hip-height to three stories tall, sending water weighing as much as the...
US has reclosed its southern border after a flesh-eating parasite is seen further north...
The U.S. has closed its southern border again to livestock imports, saying a flesh-eating parasite has moved further north in Mexico than previously reported.Mexico's...
‘Lord of the Rings’ director backs long shot de-extinction plan, starring New Zealand’s lost...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Filmmaker Peter Jackson owns one of the largest private collections of bones of an extinct New Zealand bird called the moa....
Residents wear masks as volcanic ash blankets villages near erupting Indonesian volcano
MAUMERE, Indonesia (AP) — Residents wore masks to protect themselves from thick volcanic ash that blanketed roads and green rice fields in villages in...
Underwater turbine spinning for 6 years off Scotland’s coast is a breakthrough for tidal...
Submerged in about 40 meters (44 yards) of water off Scotland's coast, a turbine has been spinning for more than six years to harness...
Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano erupts, sending ash cloud 11 miles in the...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s rumbling Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki erupted Monday, sending a column of volcanic materials as high as 18 kilometers (11...
Scientists transplant crossbred corals to help save Miami’s reefs from climate change
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) — A team of scientists from the University of Miami, the Florida Aquarium and Tela Marine in Honduras is working...
EPA puts on leave 139 employees who spoke out against policies under Trump
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday put on administrative leave 139 employees who signed a “declaration of dissent” with its policies, accusing them of...
NASA identifies newly discovered object as an interstellar comet that will keep a safe...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that’s wandered into our backyard.The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the...
