Guadalupe Peak and El Capitan: a landscape “lonely as a dream,” wrote Edward Abbey. Bryan Schutmaat It’s 12:30 on a November afternoon, and I’m sitting on top of Guadalupe Peak, the highest mountain ...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef faces critical danger from back-to-back bouts of extreme ocean heat. Ocean heat in the Coral Sea is at its highest in four centuries, scientists report in the Aug. 8 ...

For us land-dwellers, being crushed under several miles of ocean water wouldn’t end very well. But for a deep-sea dwelling ctenophore, also known as a comb jelly, being brought up to the surface can ...

Clashes between the China Coast Guard and the Philippine Navy escalated in June. Philippine officials announced late last month that Chinese personnel attacked dinghies attempting to provision ...

If you hold your breath and plunge your face into a tub of water, your body automatically triggers what's called the diving response. Your heart rate slows, your blood vessels constrict, and your ...

Apple's native Calculator app is finally available on iPad in iPadOS 18, and with it come new UI elements and support for mathematical notation through the Math Notes feature. At the company's annual ...

Coastal areas along Texas's stretch of the Gulf of Mexico could be vulnerable to being consumed by water as sea levels rise due to the effects of climate change, modeling suggests. By the year 2100, ...

Spousal Social Security benefits are available to the current spouses of qualifying workers and some ex-spouses. Spousal benefits are based on the worker's Social Security benefit. There's an online ...

If you’re looking to add a useful life skill to your metaphorical tool kit, consider learning how to calculate square footage. There are countless situations when calculating how many square feet are ...

During a half-century of independence, Singapore has fought to expand its territory, inch by hard-won inch. On the tip of the Malaysian peninsula, the island city-state piled up sand to expand its ...