Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Massachusetts is already preparing for sub-zero temperatures and a massive snowstorm this weekend, but will residents also have to ...

Massachusetts is already preparing for sub-zero temperatures and a massive snowstorm this weekend, but will residents also have to look out for exploding trees? Not exactly. “Exploding trees” have ...

John Seiler was strolling across Virginia Tech’s campus with his students Thursday morning when something stopped them in their tracks: a sweet cherry tree with an unusual jagged scar running along ...

Experts say trees do not explode but can crack loudly due to rapid temperature changes. This phenomenon, known as "frost cracking," occurs when tree sap freezes and expands. Young trees, thin-barked ...

Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major Clovis-era sites, researchers found shocked quartz—evidence of intense heat ...

Massachusetts voters approved a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million that generated $1.5 billion in revenue. Massachusetts voters approved a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million in November 2022 that ...

Diagnosis rates of autism among children have more than tripled over the past 15 years. One reason, which Minnesota’s welfare scandal lays bare with shocking details, is Medicaid fraud and abuse.

Two voters read information passed out by a poll worker on the Massachusetts ballot questions on the morning of the 2016 election in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston ...

A Hardwick-New Braintree police detective and a Hardwick fire deputy pushed through flames to save a driver trapped in a car that crashed into a tree and caught fire. • A Hardwick–New Braintree police ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sight. The scavengers. The smell. These were the main problems Oregonians were facing when a dead sperm whale washed up on a ...

Fifty-five years ago, a dead sperm whale washed ashore near Florence — and what happened next became one of the most infamous moments in state history. Engineers from the Oregon Highway Division, ...

The good news is that you don’t have to wait for the next Mass Effect with nothing to do. While Commander Shepard’s return is still somewhere beyond the Mass Relay, plenty of other games offer an ...