On Nov. 18, 1883, Americans adopted four standardized time zones, replacing a confusing, dangerous hodgepodge of times.

President-elect Donald Trump pledged to direct U.S. troops to carry out mass deportations of unauthorized migrants. Since ...

If you ask a Coloradan where their favorite tree skiing is, odds are reasonably good they’ll mention Steamboat. Evenly spaced ...

The rapid loss of the magnetic field over North America is still unexplained but is linked to the shift of geomagnetic poles ...

In North America, a coalition of businessmen and scientists decided on time zones, and in 1883, U.S. and Canadian railroads adopted four (Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific) to streamline service.

A weird pattern over Alaska may cause Mother Nature to cook up some wild weather next week. Here’s an early outlook for ...

It's well known that cargo vessels and whales don't mix; whale-ship collisions are one of the leading causes of death for ...

Our maps reveal widespread risk of vessel collisions in areas including the U.S. West Coast, the Mediterranean Sea and the northern Indian Ocean. These zones already have documented ... the west and ...

According to the fossil record, cetaceans—whales, dolphins and their relatives—evolved from four-legged land mammals that ...

When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...