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Winter storms recently left drivers stranded on interstate highways, some for more than 48 hours, sometimes without food or water. In these situations it pays to be prepared, and one hour of fair-weather shopping can spare you hours of misery if you find yourself stuck in your car during flooding

If you’re having a hard time seeing the light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel, we suggest trying the view from a different tunnel—the Lincoln Tunnel to be exact. It’s there, on the New Jersey side, that one compassionate motel worker is making sure people have a roof over their heads by offering

Black holes really are giant fuzzballs, a new study says. The study attempts to put to rest the debate over Stephen Hawking’s famous information paradox, the problem created by Hawking’s conclusion that any data that enters a black hole can never leave. This conclusion accorded with the laws of

133 years ago today, a group of 33 academics, businessmen, and others met at the Cosmos Club in the nation’s capital with the aim of creating an organization to “to increase and diffuse geographic knowledge.” Thusly, the National Geographic Society was born, and over the next one-and-a-third

From the lowland forests of Madagascar to Easter Island’s coral reefs, dozens of new flora and fauna were added to the scientific tree of life in 2021, proving that our vast and dynamic planet still contains unexplored places with never-before recorded plants and animals. Researchers at the