Oct 04 Company suspected in oil spill had dozens of violations By Amy Taxin, Christopher Weber, Associated Press The company is under scrutiny after a suspected leak in an underwater pipeline fouled the sands of famed Huntington Beach and other coastal communities. Continue reading
Oct 04 WATCH: Nobel Prize in physics awarded to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi Manabe and Hasselmann “laid the foundation of our knowledge of the Earth’s climate and how humanity influences it." Parisi “built a deep physical and mathematical model” that made it possible to understand complex systems in fields as different as mathematics,… Continue reading
Oct 04 Actor William Shatner of Star Trek fame is actually going to space By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press At age 90, Shatner will become the oldest person in space. He'll join three others — two of them paying customers — aboard a Blue Origin capsule. It will be the company's second launch with a crew. Continue reading
Oct 02 European-Japanese space mission gets 1st glimpse of Mercury By Associated Press A joint European-Japanese spacecraft got its first glimpse of Mercury as it swung by the solar system’s innermost planet while on a mission to deliver two probes into orbit in 2025. Continue reading
Oct 02 COVID-19 deaths eclipse 700,000 in U.S. as delta variant rages By Heather Hollingsworth, Tammy Webber, Associated Press It’s a milestone that by all accounts didn’t have to happen this soon. The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 eclipsed 700,000 late Friday — a number greater than the population of Boston. The last 100,000 deaths occurred during a time… Continue reading
Oct 01 Cavers descend into the 'Well of Hell,' new clues about humans' arrival in North America and other stories you missed By Deema Zein, Julia Griffin One in two children in the U.S. have detectable levels of lead in their blood, cavers descend to the bottom of Yemen’s ‘Well of Hell’ for the first time and newly discovered fossil footprints show earlier human arrival in North… Continue reading
Oct 01 WATCH: Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to David Julius, Ardem Patapoutian By Associated Press They were cited for their discovery of receptors for temperature and touch. Continue reading
Sep 30 Watch 7:33 Why discovery of DNA's double helix was based on 'rip-off' of female scientist's data By William Brangham, Jason Kane, Claire Mufson It is the famous lightbulb-going-off story every school kid learns: How James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA, cementing their place in scientific history. But as William Brangham explains, a new book titled "The Secret of Life"… Continue watching
Sep 30 U.S. stem cell clinics boomed while FDA paused crackdown By Matthew Perrone, Associated Press The Food and Drug Administration gave clinics three years to show that their questionable treatments were safe and worked. But today none of the clinics have won FDA approval and there are more businesses than before selling the treatments for… Continue reading
Sep 29 Watch 8:30 California's giant sequoias are pillars of living history. Climate change may kill them By Cat Wise, Leah Nagy California's famous giant sequoias can live for thousands of years. But the KNP Complex Fire is just 11 percent contained, and is burning across nearly 50,000 acres, including treasured groves in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Another fire is… Continue watching