May 03 How to turn cicada season 2021 into a science project By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas Here's how to find Brood X cicadas, and what to do next. Continue reading
May 02 SpaceX returns 4 astronauts to Earth; rare night splashdown By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press SpaceX safely returned four astronauts from the International Space Station on Sunday, making the first U.S. crew splashdown in darkness since the Apollo 8 moonshot. Continue reading
Apr 29 Watch 8:38 HHS Sec. Becerra on bipartisanship, health care and immigration By Amna Nawaz The Biden administration on Wednesday laid out a $1.8 trillion American Families Plan, which focuses on child care and education. As President Biden pushes these sweeping new policies, he's relying on his cabinet secretaries to help in the negotiation effort. Continue watching
Apr 29 Watching a coral reef die in a warming ocean By Sam Purkis, The Conversation Scientists watched in real time as rising ocean heat transformed the sprawling reef. It was a harbinger for ecosystems everywhere as the planet warms. Continue reading
Apr 29 U.S. agency to look at bringing back bison on Montana refuge By Matthew Brown, Associated Press The remote landscape of badlands and prairie is bisected by the Missouri River. Bison historically roamed the area but were wiped out by overhunting across most of North America in the late 19th century. Continue reading
Apr 29 Analysis: How marketers could use voice-profiling to sell you more stuff By Joseph Turow, The Conversation Marketers will soon be able to use AI-assisted vocal analysis to gain insights into shoppers' inclinations – without people knowing what they're revealing or how that information is being interpreted. Continue reading
Apr 28 Watch 1:36 What going to the moon taught Michael Collins about Earth Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins died Wednesday after battling cancer. In 1969, he stayed in lunar orbit alone for over 20 hours while fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made the first landing on the moon. Collins said he… Continue watching
Apr 28 Astronaut Michael Collins, Apollo 11 pilot, dies of cancer By Jessica Gresko, Associated Press While Collins traveled some 238,000 miles to the moon and came within 69 miles, he never set foot on the surface. Collins spent the eight-day mission piloting the command module, Columbia. Continue reading
Apr 28 Glaciers are melting faster than they did 15 years ago, study shows By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press Using 20 years of recently declassified satellite data, scientists calculated that the world’s 220,000 mountain glaciers are losing more than 328 billion tons of ice and snow per year since 2015, according to a study in Wednesday’s journal Nature. Continue reading
Apr 27 Watch 6:38 Toxic waste dump site more than twice the size of Manhattan discovered in Pacific Ocean By Stephanie Sy, Courtney Norris, Claire Mufson A massive underwater toxic waste site has long been suspected off the Southern California shore, since industrial companies used the ocean as a dumping ground until 1972. Now marine scientists have identified over 25,000 barrels they believe contain the toxic… Continue watching