CLEARWATER, Fla. — The city of Clearwater has commissioned an artist to paint giant underwater mural scenes on two water tanks with half the cost of the project being covered by a federal grant from ...

There are certain situations, such as after a particularly challenging workout or during a sun-filled, sweaty beach day, when nothing tastes better than a gulp of cold, refreshing water. But let’s ...

WINNSBORO, S.C. — The S.C. Department of Environmental Services (SCDES) is asking the community to report sightings of an invasive plant from Brazil that’s banned in the U.S. Known as giant salvinia, ...

A tourist's thrill ride on a glass water slide in China turned into a scare after the raft got frighteningly close to the edge of the barrier during the ride. The moment, captured in a video posted on ...

Male Eastern Hercules beetles have big horns but aren’t dangerous to humans. However, their legs can scratch you if you pick them up. ©Georges_Creations ...

Today, the near-Earth asteroid known as Ryugu is bone dry. But new research suggests that the half-mile space rock may have once been flowing with liquid water — and crucially, at a period in the ...

A research expedition, known as Expedition 501, has found a huge deposit of "secret fresh water" stretching from New Jersey all the way to Maine, after drilling into the seafloor off Cape Cod. With ...

Robots can serve pizza, crawl over alien planets, swim like octopuses and jellyfish, cosplay as humans, and even perform surgery. But can they walk on water? Rhagobot isn’t exactly the first thing ...

A major sparkling water brand has discontinued its line of spiked seltzers, four years after its launch. Spindrift’s Spiked alcohol line joined the hard seltzer market in 2021 by crafting a beverage ...

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