From Hitchcockian highlights like Notorious to modern-day gems like Casino Royale, these spy movies showcase the brilliance of the genre at its best.

A new study explains how some supernovas are particularly dazzling—the glow from a magnetic, spinning ball of neutrons called a magnetar. An assist from Einstein is what settled the case ...

While many of the world's glaciers are in rapid retreat, scientists have been baffled to find 3,100 that are 'surging'. While this might sound like a good thing, the experts warn that it could be even ...

This month marks 40 years since the creation of National Girls and Women in Sports Day (Feb. 4), and The Oregonian/OregonLive and longtime Oregon sports writer René Ferrán commemorated the occasion by ...

As South Australia gets close to its goal of running purely on solar and wind energy, its electricity prices have dropped by a third in a year and are now the lowest in Australia. The state serves as ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The air we breathe every day is much more than a simple mixture of nitrogen and oxygen (and small amounts of other gases). Every day, we inhale ...

From Hollywood legends to political leaders and Nobel Prize winners, a small but notable group of famous figures have joined ...

The small group of people worth a dozen digits has hit a record high, just as Elon Musk approaches trillionaire territory.

When the century began, golf course design and development were in a very different place. Hundreds of new courses were opening annually, including dozens of stand-alone, upscale daily-fee facilities ...

While science has a solid grasp on calculating drag and resistance on microscopic spherical objects, particles like dust, microplastics, and viruses are rarely spherical. A new study re-analyzes a ...

As Massachusetts continues to mark the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, the Worcester area is counting down to a milestone of its own: the centennial of Robert Goddard’s pioneering liquid ...

The National Academy of Inventors ranked the 100 universities with the most patents in the world. There were two from Georgia ...