What you should knowSnow has switched over to sleet across Philadelphia after as much as 7 inches blanketed the region. Freezing rain also remains a possibility. 600 pieces of equipment, 1,000 ...

Bitter cold and power outages persist as the death toll rises in Middle Tennessee after Winter Storm Fern. Emergency response continues.

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have used virtual reality (VR) to demonstrate that pedestrians' behaviors, such as stopping or turning their heads, can induce gaze following (the "honey-pot ...

MONTREAL — The Crown corporation overseeing a planned high-speed rail line between Toronto and Quebec City says tunnels will be needed in Montreal and possibly Toronto. In an update on its website, ...

A helicopter full of researchers with the Yukon Geological Survey is scouring a remote mountain region in southwest Yukon, looking for avalanches and landslides – evidence of a magnitude 7.0 ...

A new rail link between Birmingham and Manchester is likely to be a relief for passengers plagued by crowded services (Picture: Universal Images Group) Manchester and Birmingham could be connected ...

For hundreds of years, people believed that, come autumn, barn swallows would dive under the surface of ponds and lakes, swim to the bottom, and bury themselves in the mud for the winter. We now know ...

PARIS — Long lines beneath I.M. Pei’s glass pyramid in Paris have become as much a part of the experience as the “ Mona Lisa ” itself. Now the Louvre is putting a higher price on that pilgrimage, ...

Antarctica looks empty at first glance, just ice and more ice. Yet new research shows that under about 2 kilometers of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, there is a surprisingly well-preserved landscape of ...

The U.S. Geological Survey, the federal government’s earth sciences arm, discovered new oil and gas reserves in the Permian Basin — enough to supply the United States for 10 months. The USGS said ...

Outside Barcroft Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia, Janet Hunter has been a constant longer than most of the students — and even longer than many of their parents. For 44 years, Hunter has ...