Science Oct 04 New York City’s Maker Faire Delivers Dazzling Colors, Wacky Inventions A multi-functional unicorn shoots fire from its horn while sneezing glitter. A six-person ensemble plays instruments made of saw blades, propane tanks, automotive parts, and simple household objects. Cars shaped like cupcakes made of reused electric-car parts and…
Nation Sep 20 The drug that never lets go Dickie Sanders was not naturally prone to depression. The 21-year-old BMX rider was known for being sweet spirited and warm -- a hugger not a hand-shaker. The kind of guy who called on holidays. Who helped his father on the…
Science Sep 11 Candidates Get Schooled on Science, Await Grades A large tree nymph sits on the finger of a visitor at a science center in Bremen, Germany. Photo by Ingo Wagner/AFP/GettyImages. A group called Science Debate has been trying for nearly five years now to thrust science into…
Science Aug 23 Diana Nyad: A Swimmer Battles the Elements During her 42-hour attempted swim from Cuba to Key West this week, Diana Nyad battled extreme exhaustion, severe sunburn, strained muscles, powerful storms and circling sharks. But the thing that really ground the 103-mile trek to a halt, she said,…
Science Aug 15 Mars Curiosity Rover Gets ‘Brain Transplant,’ Prepares for Mountain Trek NASA's intrepid Mars rover, Curiosity has been through a lot in the past year. It flew 354 million miles, blasted through the Mars atmosphere, deployed a supersonic parachute, unfurled a giant sky crane and touched down gently on…
Science Aug 15 Mars Revealed by Intrepid New Rover NASA's intrepid Mars Rover, Curiosity has been through a lot in the past year. It flew 354-million miles, deployed a supersonic parachute and sky crane and landed on the surface of Mars. And while it undergoes equipment checks, it's been…
Science Jul 25 Sudden, Rare Ice Melt in Greenland. What Caused it? In a four-day period this July, the Greenland ice sheet melted at a faster rate than satellite data has ever recorded and at higher elevations than we've seen in our lifetimes. So what caused this extraordinary melt? Since May,…
Nation Jul 20 NRA Deletes Tweet, Twitter Talks Gun Control A gas mask was marked as the first piece of evidence in a criminal investigation. Federal authorities searched through evidence in the parking lot behind the Century 16 movie theater where a gunman shot and killed 12 people Friday morning.
Science Jun 06 Venus Transit as Revealed in Space For those Earthlings lucky enough to be under cloudless skies during Tuesday's Venus transit, it took the form of a pea-sized dot gliding across the Sun's northern hemisphere. For more perspective, NASA has collected a stunning sampling of images both…
Science Jun 06 The Squid and the Electric Current: Remembering the Work of a Brain Pioneer In the late 1940s, Sir Andrew Huxley and Sir Alan Hodgkin teased a nerve cell from an Atlantic squid, placed it into a seawater bath and zapped it with currents. Then, with the data, they built a mathematical model that…