The 2025 winter solstice happens on Sunday, Dec. 21, bringing the longest night and marking the start of astronomical winter.

Winter starts Sunday with the solstice. Why is it the shortest day, longest night? What to know in Mississippi ...

Today marks the shortest day and longest night of the year as the sun reaches its lowest point in the Northern Hemisphere sky ...

Sunday is the shortest day of the year north of the equator, where the solstice marks the start of astronomical winter. It’s ...

Electrons determine everything: how chemical reactions unfold, how materials conduct electricity, how biological molecules transfer energy, and how quantum technologies operate. But electron dynamics ...

The thing about records is that they're meant to be broken. From the "longest human tunnel traveled through by a skateboarding dog" to the "largest living cat," Guinness World Records has been ...

ICFO researchers have set a new record by generating the shortest soft X-ray pulse to date –just 19.2 attoseconds long. This is the fastest flash of light, faster than the atomic unit of time (24.2 ...

A new technique breaks Dijkstra's 70-year-old record: it finds routes faster in huge networks, changing graph theory forever.

They say you can’t teach height. If you could, Muggsy Bogues probably would have taken a lesson or two. Without the benefits of a vertical education, the 5-foot-3 point guard still managed to last ...

The NBA is increasingly defined by the giants who call the league home. From Giannis Antetokounmpo and Kevin Durant to Victor Wembanyama, it seems as if there's some multifaceted willow waiting in the ...

Names are meant to describe and distinguish one thing from another. Whether that’s a sign of creativity or simplicity, names have captivated people from their beginnings. So when settlers came to the ...