When a person goes into deep sleep, waterlike fluid circulates around the brain, washing away metabolic waste that is linked to diseases such as Alzheimer's. This process, known as the glymphatic ...

For days, people along the Bolivar Peninsula have been keeping watch over a stranded shrimp boat slowly being swallowed by the Texas coast. What started Friday morning as a trawler stuck on a sandbar ...

Timmy, the young humpback whale who was stranded for weeks in shallow waters, has been found dead just off Denmark’s coast, according to the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, just weeks after a ...

The sun was rising on a 65th day of chaos in the Strait of Hormuz and the crew of a Chinese-owned oil tanker was running into its final days of food. The navigation officer was on the bridge radioing ...

The budget-friendly carrier's sudden suspension of all operations marks the first time in 25 years a major U.S. airline has shut down, CNN reports GIORGIO VIERA / AFP via Getty Spirit Airlines ...

A Texas hiker was rescued by first responders after being stranded overnight at Enchanted Rock State Natural Area on Saturday, May 2, according to a Facebook post from the Fredericksburg Fire EMS. The ...

Spirit collapse linked to Iran war, jet fuel price surge Rival airlines cap fares, offer free seats to stranded Spirit passengers Spirit's shutdown also blamed on blocked JetBlue merger, pandemic ...

In early March, a young male humpback whale appeared where humpback whales are not supposed to be: in the Baltic Sea, just off the coast of Wismar, in northern Germany. The animal—forty feet long and ...

NEARLY AN ENTIRE DAY. IT WAS KIND OF SCARY NOT KNOWING WHAT WAS GOING ON AND NOT KNOWING IF ANYONE WAS COMING TO SAVE US, MICHELLE JOHNSON WAS ONE OF DOZENS OF DRIVERS STRANDED ON I-20 IN THE MIDDLE ...

Slow roiling convection currents deep within Earth's mantle, which are associated with the movements of tectonic plates, also deform the material of the mantle itself. Now, a new study in The Seismic ...

We’ve barely explored the ocean’s floor. This new 3D map offers 10,000 new spots to look at next. Composite satellite visualizations of the Earth. National Geographic Explorer Katy Croff Bell has ...

A handwritten “SOS” message in the sand helped save two stranded Hawaii visitors as flash floods swept across Oahu, where Coast Guard and Navy crews also rescued five people and a dog from a rooftop.