Researchers have named two newly discovered freshwater snail species from Brazil after characters from The Lord of the Rings.

If you cut down a tree, you can read an environmental record. Now climate change is complicating the narrative.

We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too?

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

Averting your gaze when viewing the ringed planet can cause an optical phenomenon that might make you think twice about what ...

The conclusions come from patterns tracked by scientists that point to several meteorite impacts through geological records.

Stephen Ring's body was discovered just before lunchtime in the water at Carrigfoyle Quarry, around six kilometres from Wexford town. The discovery was made by gardaí almost two weeks after he ...

I first learned about Ring back in 2013, after seeing the product on Shark Tank, one of my favorite TV shows. And while Ring sank in the tank and none of the sharks offered Jamie Siminoff a deal, this ...

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The Oura Ring Gen3 Horizon collects data from your finger on over 20 kinds of biometrics, like heart rate and body temperature, to track and analyze sleep, activities, stress, and more.

But in one of these piles of lost memories, a small, inconspicuous velvet black box was discovered with a ring and a note that read: “I was 18 when my parents gave it to me.” Now, Joe Kovach ...