A total solar eclipse casting a shadow 70 miles wide will cross the entirety of the continental US. Here's why that's a big deal!

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In the near future, the North Pole could truly be relegated to the realm of history. Since scientists started measuring winter sea ice, we’ve lost half a million square miles of it—and for every additional ton of carbon dioxide in the air, about 32 square feet of summer sea ice disappears. Robin

Venice has battled rising water levels since the fifth century. But today, the water seems to be winning. Several factors, both natural and man-made, cause Venice to flood about 100 times a year — usually from October until late winter — a phenomenon called the acqua alta.

Mikael Kjellman is a design engineer from Sweden who created the Bicycle Car called Pod Ride. It has a water resistant body with a thermal windshield, padded seats with back support and windows that open and close depending on the weather conditions and includes snow tires.

These plastic bottles are now being viewed as a green, cheap and sustainable way to light homes. In rural Manila where homes are often built so close to each other that they have no windows or natural light these bottles are a God send. With electricity unaffordable or unavailable for many families ...

The Solar System's birth was far from peaceful. Witness the spectacular explosion known as the "Big Bang".Naked Science: Birth of the Solar System ...

Passing Through by Kristian Ulrich Larsen. The text used for the narration of “Passing Through” is part of a speech Serbia scientist and inventor Nicola Tesla delivered in 1893 at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Though today less known than figures like Edison and Einstein, Tesla was more o

Leonardo DiCaprio is known for his roles in high-grossing films like Titanic, The Departed and The Great Gatsby, but the Academy Award-winning actor also boasts an impressive art collection.He has become a regular at Art Basel and an auction fixture. In 2013, he orchestrated an auction with Christi

Experts say the “bayou city” is so vulnerable to floods — not only because it is low-lying — because explosive growth in the metro area has added 25 percent more pavement in the last 15 years, replacing soil-rich wetlands that could absorb water with concrete suburbia.