In 1181 AD, a bright "guest star" was observed to linger in the sky for around six months. Nearly 850 years later, the likely remnants of this event were rediscovered and tentatively linked to the 1181 supernova and dubbed ...
Navigating the chaos of Christmas celebrations can feel a bit like fighting through the battle of Armageddon. Yet while it might be tempting to escape this with a hot chocolate and another viewing of Love Actually, Christmas ...
WeChat is best known as China's all-purpose "super-app." It is used for everything from messaging and mobile payments to shopping and government services.
It is easy to see Halloween as an inappropriate time for children. With its mixture of bloody costumes and scary themes, it can often feel like it is luring kids into topics they are not ready to grapple with.
In a scary movie, creatures that can't always be seen often provide the biggest frights for characters and viewers alike. In deep-ocean research, the absence of one particular creature—the so-called zombie worm, "the bone ...
When it comes to treating disease, one promising avenue is addressing the presence of senescent cells. These cells—also known as "zombie cells"—stop dividing but don't die off as cells typically do. They turn up in numerous ...
It's great to see old astronomical observations come to light. Not only can these confirm or refute what's known about historic astronomical events, but they can describe what early observers actually saw.
After a semester in a class, most students gain new knowledge, skills and maybe some new friends. For students in Assistant Professor Mitzy Porras' Biology class, several undergraduates also walked away with a peer-reviewed ...
Speculation swirls about fugitive accused double murderer Dezi Freeman's potential ties to prepper groups and possible doomsday beliefs. There are even questions over whether he's hiding in a homemade underground bunker.
Global air pollution is worsening, with the United States and Canada experiencing the sharpest increases due to record-breaking, climate-supercharged wildfires that are undoing decades of progress, a study said Thursday.
