Science Oct 28 7 things you didn’t know about vampire bats The vampire bat is hardly the agent-of-evil its association with Dracula would suggest.
Arts Oct 24 Who’s footing the bill to restore the ruby slippers In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, Judy Garland’s iconic ruby slippers from “The Wizard of Oz” are one of the most popular attractions at the National Museum of American History. But since their debut on the yellow brick…
Nation Sep 14 300 years on, America’s first lighthouse shines over Boston The original tower was blown up in an incident during the Revolutionary War and was rebuilt by the newly-formed United States in 1783.
Science Sep 13 Watch antibiotic-resistant bacteria evolve right before your eyes It’s spreading! Scientists at Harvard Medical School in Boston and Technion-Israel have designed a way to document bacteria as the microbes become impervious to antibiotics.
Science Sep 08 Scientists name parasite in a tribute to Obama Already the Commander in Chief and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, President Obama now has another honor: the namesake of a new species.
Science Sep 02 Meet the mite, the tiny bugs in your mattress, your tea and on your face Millions of minuscule mites share our wide world. Mites are arachnids, much like spiders and scorpions, and the microscopic creatures are among the oldest and most plentiful invertebrates on the planet.
Nation Aug 18 Column: When news of the Louisiana flooding got personal On Saturday night, my parents went to sleep confident that the rain falling on the state was just another big rainstorm. It wasn’t.
Health Aug 17 Olympic athletes use them, but do these recovery therapies really work? The proven benefits of athletic therapies like cupping, a traditional eastern medicine technique made famous by Michael Phelps and others at the Rio Games, are often unclear.
Science Aug 12 Meet the oldest known vertebrate in the world A Greenland shark just took home the gold medal for longest-living vertebrate. This slow-moving native of the Arctic and North Atlantic can live to be 272 years old, according to a new study in Science.
Science Jun 30 NASA’s Juno zooms in on Jupiter On Independence Day, NASA’s Juno spacecraft will arrive at Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, and beam photos and other data 1.8 billion miles back to Earth. After traveling five years and 1,740 million miles at more than…