Burn marks left on trees show that fires occurred frequently in North America from 1750 to 1880, but they tended to be less severe than modern fires and may have even been beneficial to forests ...

And few fossils capture our imagination quite like those of the dinosaurs who lived millions of years ago. This interactive ...

Several dozen other coins, made of an alloy of gold, silver and copper, come from what is now Great Britain and were stamped ...

Winter can be a good time to sit by the fire and read someone’s memories of a long ago trek through the Adirondacks. By chance I found a copy of “Friendly Adirondack Peaks,” by Robert Wickham, ...

This discovery challenges previous notions about early mapping techniques, as the oldest known three-dimensional map prior to this was a Bronze Age slab created around 3000 years ago. The findings at ...

Lunar New Year — also commonly called Chinese New Year — marks the start of the new year based on lunar calendars, or monthly cycles of the moon's phases. The lunar new year starts with the ...

In the last days of the Biden administration, a gallon of regular gas is more expensive than a year ago when it was $3.072. The latest fuel pricing point is a sign that gas prices are headed in ...

This school year, MAPs testing comes at the end of January. Between Jan. 20 and Jan. 30, hundreds of Moffat County School District students will be testing to show their growth. MAP stands for ...

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The UK experienced its coldest January night in 15 years after a hamlet in northern Scotland dropped to minus 18.7C on Friday. Altnaharra, which is in the most northern region of the Highlands ...

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