Oct 09 ‘Fat Bear’ champ Grazer beats Chunk, the behemoth that killed her cub By Mark Thiessen, Associated Press In a storyline better befitting a melodrama than a popularity vote, Grazer won her second Fat Bear Contest Tuesday. Continue reading
Oct 09 What the Waffle House Index says about Hurricane Milton By Hannah Schoenbaum, Associated Press As Hurricane Milton barrels toward Florida communities still recovering from Helene, many Waffle House locations along the Gulf Coast, including those in Tampa, Cape Coral and St. Petersburg, have closed in preparation. Continue reading
Oct 09 Helene’s deadly rain and wind got a boost from climate change, flash study finds By Alexa St. John, Associated Press The warming climate boosted Helene's wind speeds by about 13 miles per hour, and made the high sea temperatures that fueled the storm 200 to 500 times more likely, World Weather Attribution calculated Wednesday from Europe. Continue reading
Oct 08 Hurricane Milton revs back up to Category 5 storm By Associated Press Milton had previously weakened to a Category 4 storm, but its wind speeds have increased once again past the Category 5 threshold. Continue reading
Oct 08 ‘If meteorologists could stop hurricanes, we would.’ Here’s why humans still can’t control the weather By Melina Walling, Seth Borenstein, Associated Press Scientists say hurricanes are far too powerful for humans to try and control their paths — and climate change is providing more fuel than ever for storms like Helene and Milton. Continue reading
Oct 07 What makes Tampa especially vulnerable to hurricanes right now By Terry Spencer, Associated Press It's among the fastest-growing metropolises in the United States, with more than 3 million people, and highly vulnerable to flooding due to climate change. Continue reading
Oct 07 Spacecraft on its way to investigate asteroid slammed by NASA in a previous save-the-Earth test By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press A spacecraft has blasted off to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. Continue reading
Oct 06 WATCH: David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper win 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry for breakthrough work on proteins By Daniel Niemann, Mike Corder, Associated Press “That was actually called a grand challenge in chemistry, and in particular in biochemistry, for decades. So, it’s that breakthrough that gets awarded today,” Heiner Linke, chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, said. Continue reading
Oct 06 WATCH: AI pioneers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton win 2024 Nobel Prize in physics By Daniel Niemann, Seth Borenstein, Mike Corder, Associated Press Hinton, who is known as the Godfather of artificial intelligence, is a citizen of Canada and Britain who works at the University of Toronto and Hopfield is an American working at Princeton. Continue reading
Oct 06 Live Map: Track the path of Hurricane Milton Rescue teams plucked Florida residents from the flotsam of Hurricane Milton on Thursday after the storm smashed through coastal communities where it tore homes into pieces, filled streets with mud and spawned a barrage of deadly tornadoes. At least six… Continue reading