The recent wildfires in the Western Cape are a tragic yet predictable outcome of poor fire risk management in South Africa.

The prospect of facing incarceration for the rest of one's natural life forces an individual to find hope, one researcher ...

Hope is not a soft word in prison. It shapes how people cope with their sentence and it determines whether - and how - they ...

Rural Ireland has had a challenging decade. Banks and businesses have closed, vacancy rates have escalated as buildings have ...

Deserts are often dismissed as empty wastelands of sand and sun, but these arid landscapes hide some of the most perplexing ...

With only about 7,500 residents and not a single traffic light on the entire island, Molokaʻi offers a rare glimpse of Hawaii before mass tourism transformed much of the archipelago. The absence of ...

Players do get little glimpses of the Xenomorph before this point — they'll witness it kill an NPC with its tail, hear it ...

But that’s exactly how 2002’s Animal Crossing begins. Somehow, I find this to be one of the most charming introductions to a ...

Videogames aren't as hooked on loon sonics as movies and music are, though once you know what you're listening for, the ...

Learning doesn’t always mean flipping through heavy textbooks or sitting in a long lecture. Sometimes, it just takes ...

In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar ...

As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a technosignature. Reading time 3 minutes From the moment astronomers discovered ...