Each tropical depression, storm and hurricane is given a forecast cone. It's designed to show increasing forecast uncertainty ...

It's probably the hurricane season's most eagerly awaited piece of information for a brewing storm: the forecast path. Sometimes called the "cone of uncertainty", it's a useful tool for tracking where ...

At the mouth of the Providence River, there's a cone-shaped concrete structure that seems somewhat inexplicable. The structure is near the Pomham Rocks Lighthouse. "It has no lights and no markings, ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

CHEGA SOFLA, IRAN—Science News Today reports that archaeologists excavating a Copper Age cemetery in western Iran recently noticed the unusual skull of a young woman among the burials. Her elongated ...