Jun 08 WATCH: Bill Nye testifies before Congress about impacts of climate change on homeland security By Associated Press Bill Nye testified before Congress about impacts of climate change on homeland security. Continue reading
Jun 08 Swaths of internet go down after cloud outage By Kelvin Chan, Associated Press Multiple websites went offline briefly across the globe Tuesday after an apparent outage at the cloud service company Fastly, and there were reports of sporadic disruptions after the company patched the problem about an hour later. Continue reading
Jun 07 Carbon dioxide in the air has reached another dangerous milestone By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press The annual peak of global heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the air has reached 50% higher than when the industrial age began. And the average rate of increase is faster than ever, scientists say. Continue reading
Jun 06 Watch 5:50 A ‘Hail Mary’ to save some species of birds in Maryland By Hari Sreenivasan, Sam Weber, Connie Kargbo On Maryland’s eastern shore, small islands used by birds for nesting are disappearing. That coincides with a steep drop in several species of colonial nesting birds in the state. But this spring, in what's being described as a ‘Hail Mary’,… Continue watching
Jun 03 Researchers may have sequenced the ‘final unknown’ of the human genome By Matthew Herper, STAT News The claim, if confirmed, surpasses the achievement laid out by leaders from the Human Genome Project and Celera Genomics in 2000. Continue reading
Jun 02 WATCH: NASA picks Venus as hot spot for two new robotic missions By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press The space agency's new administrator, Bill Nelson, announced two new robotic missions to the solar system's hottest planet, during his first major address to employees Wednesday. Continue reading
Jun 01 Biden suspends oil leases in Alaska’s Arctic refuge By Matthew Daly, Associated Press The move reverses a drilling program approved by the Trump administration and revives a political fight over a remote region that is home to polar bears and other wildlife — and a rich reserve of oil. Continue reading
Jun 01 Scientists hope they’re closing in on a cure for COVID-19 By Corey Meador Doctors have some medications they can use to treat the effects of COVID-19, but scientists are searching for effective drugs that target the virus itself. Two promising drugs in the pipeline offer hope for a cure. Continue reading
May 31 Climate change responsible for 37% of global heat deaths, new study says By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press The study is one of the first to do a global accounting of the toll of climate change, and it only looks at a fraction of the deaths from warming. Continue reading
May 29 Watch 7:40 Michio Kaku on his lifelong search for ‘The God Equation’ By Mori Rothman Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist who was inspired as a young child to search for the ‘theory of everything.’ Kaku co-founded the string field theory, which he believes may be the answer to the long quest to understand our… Continue watching