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Researchers have found new evidence that high-energy neutrinos are emitted when a black hole gobbles up a hapless star.

Six counties in Western North Carolina will elect new sheriffs this year. See who advanced in Tuesday's election

Global warming isn’t just hard for humans and animals. It’s wreaking havoc on plants, too

Global warming isn’t just hard for humans and animals. It’s wreaking havoc on plants, too

A disk of plastic particles levitated by sound waves could provide a model for other examples of particle clumps in the physical world.

The founders of a new Moffat County community organization, MoCo Trails, thought it would be fitting for the community to create the group’s logo, and even better to include the youth in doing it.

It’s one of the great mysteries of the pandemic, but experts think they’ve got the answers, with implications for traffic control

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- During the first wave of the Covid pandemic, something disturbing occurred on the empty roads of Virginia. Estimates made in the spring of 2020 found 45% fewer collisions had occurred in the preceding year, if compared with the pre-Covid year ending in the spring of 2019.

We aren’t just overstepping the heat threshold; we are creating Hell on Earth. But the otherwise waste heat of global warming accumulating in our oceans is golden in the eye of the perceptive beholder.

Thanks to a new analysis technique, precision measurements of the Earth-Moon distance should improve estimates of the size of the gravitational-wave background.