Ms. Bakare, 44, has worked inside battery recycling factories for years, cleaning toilets and sinks. Her test showed she had ...

This column was originally published on XtraXtra. It is being reposted on My Buckhannon ahead of Thursday’s public hearings ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Just days ahead of the U.N. climate conference to be held in Brazil, a group of 300 mayors gathered Monday in Rio de Janeiro to pledge coordinated climate action and address rising ...

New findings from the University of Virginia show children who attended public Montessori preschool demonstrated better reading ability, executive function, short-term memory and social understanding ...

TORONTO — The screen time habits formed in a child’s early years may determine how well they perform in elementary school, according to a large Canadian study that tracked thousands of children from ...

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth than the hypothetical Planet X, which astronomers have been hunting for ...

When you see art of our solar system as the planet orbit the sun, you may notice that Earth's orbit has a tilt. It is not a perfect circle. What's more, Earth is not the only planet that displays such ...

A new model from a Florida Tech professor suggests how planets are formed may determine if they have water. The study proposes that some planets may be "born dry" because they lack a way to attract ...

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...

Government schools have a different way of charging fees. Their costs go up slowly as students move to higher grades. This means parents pay more money each year. But in private schools, most of the ...

A study using the Chandra X-ray Observatory "may be the best evidence to date that some planets apparently slow down the aging process for their host stars," according to NASA. Credit: NASA/CXC/A.

In the swirling clouds of gas and dust that surround newborn stars, planets begin to form. These planet-forming disks are rich with clues about how worlds like Earth come to be. Until now, scientists ...