For decades, a handful of Dead Sea fragments written in an unknown alphabet sat in scholarly limbo, legible in shape but mute in meaning. Now a researcher has finally cracked that hidden script, ...

Amy Blanc Lacy, a script supervisor who worked on several movies and TV shows, including The Walking Dead, was killed in a hit-and-run crash on Monday, September 1. She was 62. In a news release from ...

For decades, an oxygen-depleted "dead zone" that is harmful to sea life has appeared in the Gulf of Mexico in a region off Louisiana and Texas. This year, it's larger than average, federal scientists ...

Scientists at Louisiana State University in late July discovered a dead zone in the Mississippi Sound, sparking a renewed effort by coastal conservationists to raise awareness of the issue and its ...