May 23 Trump to attend Wednesday's NASA astronaut launch in Florida By Darlene Superville, Associated Press President Donald Trump plans to be on the Florida coast Wednesday to watch American astronauts blast into orbit from the Kennedy Space Center for the first time in nearly a decade. Continue reading
May 21 Watch 5:15 New COVID-19 model shows why early action matters A newly released analysis of coronavirus' spread in the U.S. suggests a haunting hypothetical: that if social distancing and stay-at-home orders had been implemented only a week earlier, more than 30,000 lives might have been saved. But that alternate scenario… Continue watching
May 21 WATCH: NASA holds presser on upcoming SpaceX flight test By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press For the first time in nearly a decade, U.S. astronauts are about to blast into orbit aboard an American rocket from American soil. And for the first time in the history of human spaceflight, a private company is running the… Continue reading
May 21 Court says dinosaur fossils worth millions aren't minerals By Amy Beth Hanson, Associated Press Wednesday's ruling has implications in an ongoing legal battle over the ownership of millions of dollars of fossils found on an eastern Montana ranch where the surface and mineral rights are owned by different people. Continue reading
May 20 Watch 1:54 Millions in India and Bangladesh flee strongest cyclone in a decade By Judy Woodruff, Layla Quran A tropical cyclone is blasting India and Bangladesh, killing at least 14 people and destroying homes by the hundred. The storm surged out of the Bay of Bengal Wednesday into a densely populated area that has been beset by the… Continue watching
May 20 Watch 8:23 What computer-based models can tell us about coronavirus -- and what they can't By Miles O'Brien For months, scientists and public officials have relied upon computer-based models to try to predict the trajectory or the coronavirus outbreak. But models are not crystal balls, and all of them involve human assumptions. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien reports on… Continue watching
May 20 WATCH: NASA holds news conference on SpaceX launch By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press It will be the first time a private company, rather than a national government, sends astronauts into orbit. Continue reading
May 19 COVID-19 is eroding scientists' ability to conduct field work By Casey Setash, Richard B. Primack, The Conversation The COVID-19 pandemic is interrupting scientific field work across North America, leaving blank spots in important data sets and making it harder to track ecological change. Continue reading
May 19 Why coronavirus misinformation is so hard to fight By John Yang, Sam Lane, Mike Fritz, Vika Aronson, Erica R. Hendry, Emily Carpeaux If you've been paying attention to the news lately, you've probably heard some wild claims about the coronavirus. We talk to two fact checkers who walk us through what they're seeing during this pandemic -- including one specific claim about… Continue reading
May 17 U.S. military's mystery space plane rockets back toward orbit By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press It’s the sixth flight of an X-37B, a solar-powered plane that's flown by remote control without a crew. Officials aren't saying how long the spacecraft will remain in orbit this time or the purpose of the mission. Continue reading