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A contaminated ham omelette loaded in Anchorage sickened 196 passengers on a transatlantic jumbo jet, and the two pilots who skipped it kept the cockpit healthy so the airliner landed safely

The breakfast tray looked the same in seat after seat. Ham and omelette, prepared in an airline catering kitchen in Anchorage and loaded during…

Two gantry cranes going up over a dry dock in Dalian span 840 feet between their legs and hoist a load 328 feet into the air, which is a span no shipyard crane anywhere has matched

Three cranes are going up over the same dock. Two of them are the large pair, and the third is a smaller machine.

Beneath Utah's rocky slopes, scientists mapped a buried glacier holding enough ice to fill 600 Olympic swimming pools yet composed almost entirely of frozen water hidden under loose debris for thousands of years

Discover Utah's hidden glacier beneath Mount Timpanogos, holding enough ice to fill 600 Olympic swimming pools, crucial for future water resourc…

A wall on the Yangtze holds 10 trillion gallons and a physicist's sum put the polar shift at four fifths of an inch, and the number anybody actually counted is a sturgeon population down to 2,569

A single dam holding 10 trillion gallons of water shifted Earth's rotational axis by 2 centimeters, a NASA-modeled finding stranger than it firs…

Española Island got its 2,300 giant tortoises back from 15 founders, and the vegetation that grew over the bare rock while they were gone has cost an endangered albatross some of its nesting colonies

Just 15 Española Island tortoises survived before captivity. The 1,500 animals sent back are now tearing down shrubs and bringing the cactus bac…

Scientists replayed 75 hours of ROV footage from unexplored waters off Alaska and found 164 kinds of coral and sponge, with 63% appearing at only one dive site

Scientists replayed 75 hours of ROV footage from unexplored waters off Alaska and found 164 kinds of coral and sponge, with 63% appearing at onl…

A rock collecting dust on a Japanese museum shelf for 30 years turned out to hide the bones of a sea monster no scientist had ever catalogued

A dusty rock at a Japanese museum holds the bones of an unrecognized sea monster, a remarkable paleontological discovery after 30 years.

Crews pulled 117 creosote pilings out of a Salish Sea beach in two and a half days, and the herring eggs laid a few hundred feet away are the reason a rotting pier mattered at all

117 creosote pilings pulled from Jackson Beach on San Juan Island had spent decades leaching fish toxins into eelgrass beds and salmon habitat t…

Meteorite that punched through a New Jersey roof carried ancient "brine chemistry" tied to life's earliest ingredients

Discover how a meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home reveals ancient brine chemistry linked to life's earliest ingredients.

NASA satellites are watching the Pacific Ocean go "silent" as a returning climate giant starves phytoplankton, anchovies, and seabirds from within

NASA satellites reveal El Niño's impact on the Pacific Ocean, starving phytoplankton and wildlife. Discover the ecological changes unfolding in…

An astronaut opened the window shutters on her 1,598th orbit and had 2 active volcanoes in the frame inside a minute, and the sleeping one has a city of 3 million wrapped around its base

On Day 103 of the Crew-12 mission, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot photographed Mount Vesuvius from 250 miles up, and what she saw reframes the volc…

Divers descend into Australia's "forgotten" volcanic peaks — and the deep-sea creatures waiting there defy expectations

Explore the recent expedition uncovering Australia's Tasmantid Seamounts, revealing unique deep-sea creatures and reshaping marine conservation…

Elephants in southern Sri Lanka eat the thorn scrub that 17 small solar projects are clearing, and each project was reviewed on its own so nobody ever looked at the elephant habitat as a whole

A herd of elephants are returning to land that is now used as a massive solar plant. Raising concerns over the future of this majestic species o…

Sold as a way to build muscle in older age, a cheap plant fiber taken daily for 12 weeks by 36 twin pairs did little for their strength, but it moved something no one was testing, their memory

A twin study found a daily prebiotic supplement improved memory scores in adults over 60 in just 12 weeks. Here's what the gut-brain link really…

50 years later the SS Edmund Fitzgerald's sinking still has no definitive explanation

The Great Lakes are known more commonly "Lake Superior" and for its capability to swallow ships without warning. 50 years later and the question…