Number of shark bites consistent with recent trends, with small spike in fatalities

Astronomers spot 18 black holes gobbling up nearby stars. The detections more than double the number of known tidal disruption events in the nearby universe.

A new study finds that the number of words in the US federal tax code has swollen by 70% since the 1990s, and is currently more than 4 million words; Americans now spend about 1.5 billion hours a year filing their tax returns.

Bottled water is up to a hundred times worse than previously thought when it comes to the number of tiny plastic bits it contains, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences said Monday