Despite being known as masters of trade, these seafarers were never a single collective. Different groups built powerful ...

Alpha, beta, omicron... These three words bring to mind whiffs of hydroalcoholic gel and the feel of a mask on the face. Indeed, the covid variants were named using Greek letters. Yet this alphabet ...

When we learn the letters of the English alphabet, we just remember them in order, from A to Z. But have you ever thought ...

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) ─ Last year’s hurricane season was the busiest on record in the Atlantic. For the second time in 15 years, the list of names used to identify hurricanes was exhausted and ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The World Meteorological Organization has decided to make some major changes when it comes to naming tropical cyclones during hurricane season. The organization’s Hurricane ...

The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is off to a record-setting start, and at its current pace, the tropical storm count may outnumber the list of 21 names that are used to identify systems -- something ...

A worrying new "heavily mutated" COVID variant has emerged in Botswana, South Africa and Hong Kong, prompting the World Health Organization to schedule an emergency meeting on Friday. At the WHO ...

Anagrams aside, the new coronavirus variant’s name follows an established pattern of naming variants after letters in the Greek alphabet. Pedestrians wearing face masks against the coronavirus walk ...

Although Oklahoma doesn't often have impacts from hurricanes or tropical systems, 2020 is turning into a record year regarding hurricanes. Currently, we are on track to use all of the names on the ...

The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season finished with 30 total named storms — the most in any year on record — but three of those names will never be used again. Something else that will never be used ...

Phoenician ruins, temple to Venus in Erice, Cagliari medieval walls, Sicilian street food. Who is on the Sicilian flag, and why does she have three legs? What does the island of Mozia have to do with ...

The Atlantic hurricane season has easily exhausted its list of names this year and has already crossed off four more from a backup list of Greek alphabet names. That begs the question: what happens if ...