Native American words, honoring royals, or homesick settlers—check out the crazy origins of every American state's name.

The investment is geared toward improving broadband services in thousands of locations for households that lack internet at ...

Health and environmental officials in Rhode Island and Massachusetts are reminding people to keep protecting themselves from mosquito bites, as the risk of transmitted diseases remains.

The University of Rhode Island is celebrating progress in transforming the Bay Campus in Narragansett. The university's goal ...

Earth system models (ESMs), used in climate simulations and projections, typically use grids of 50–200 km resolution. These ...

better maps might not look quite as you’d expect. The new process incorporates lunar topography data from the agency’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a mission that has been mapping the moon in ...

Jennifer Boehme grew up scouting beaches around her home in St. Petersburg, Florida, for whatever she could find. Rocks, sand dollars, coquina mollusks — anything the ocean ...

The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation has launched its interactive fall foliage map. The map is designed to help residents find spots in the state currently in “peak foliage” ...

Below is the 500mb GFS forecast for Thu., 09/26 - day of landfall. The interaction with the trough to the north & northwest ...