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A solar flare eruption from earlier this week is expected to reach Earth on Saturday and Sunday, creating the potential for the aurora borealis to be visible across large parts of the U.S.

Beloved Red Sox player David Ortiz was voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year on the ballot. Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens fell short in their final year on the ballot.

One musical act that didn't make the halftime show at this past weekend's Super Bowl was Alexander Pollack's truck horn symphony. We spoke with Pollack in November about his plans for the National Anthem and other songs to be performed on the air horns. Now, we hear the results.

As the U.S. Forest Service celebrates its 100-year anniversary, its mission has become more complex. Scientists are studying a vast network of plumbing under the forest floor that in the dry West is more valuable than the trees above.

This July 4, NASA is preparing for fireworks in space, when the comet Tempel 1 will smash into a probe set in its path. Scientists hope the mission, called Deep Impact, will reveal what comets are made of and how they're put together.

For at least 40 years, shortwave listeners have been stumbling across the eerie sound of unidentified stations transmitting only voices chanting numbers. Speculation on their purpose has ranged from UFO landing coordinates to international espionage. We explore the mystery of the shortwave numbers stations through the recordings compiled by hardcore numbers monitors.

A new study suggests that there are 20 quadrillion ants on Earth. And that's a conservative estimate.

Revenues continue to grow as professional sports maintain schedules and betting options increase

The Photographer is an unusual graphic novel that combines photos and illustrations to tell the story of a photojournalist's harrowing trip to Afghanistan with a medical team from Doctors Without Borders.

The Renegades is a brutal true-to-life novel about war in Afghanistan, written by Tom Young, a member of the National Guard.