Nov 30 Column: Our planet will suffer if Trump shutters NASA Earth science By David Biello The end of ice on Earth is merely one thing we won’t be able to monitor if NASA stops using satellites to look at our home, author David Biello writes… Continue reading
Nov 30 Lucy, our famous ancestor, was built for tree-dwelling By Kristin Hugo Bone scans of Lucy, our ever popular human ancestor, suggest early hominins may have spent millions of years “monkeying around” in trees. Continue reading
Nov 30 Worldwide experiment seeks your randomness to test laws of quantum physics By Justin Scuiletti How good are you at being random? Your unpredictability can aid in a worldwide Bell Test experiment Wednesday to test the laws of quantum mechanics. Continue reading
Nov 29 This innovative buoy could help save some of the rarest whales in the world By Julia Griffin “What we’re really trying to do is let the (fishing and shipping) industries do the work that they do, but do it in such a way that it doesn’t cause a species to go extinct.”… Continue reading
Nov 29 Coconut crabs pack the world's strongest grip By Kristin Hugo It’s official--the coconut crab has the strongest grip of any animal. Researchers in Japan found that a coconut crab’s pinching power corresponds with its size -- and that force was tremendous. Continue reading
Nov 26 Past glacier movements offer clues to the future of ice melt By Julia Griffin The West Antarctic ice sheet holds enough water to raise the world’s oceans an estimated 10 feet -- and it’s shrinking. Continue reading
Nov 24 What scientists are thankful for this Thanksgiving By Leigh Anne Tiffany, Julia Griffin, Kristin Hugo This year, the NewsHour reached out to a handful of scientists to find out what they're thankful for -- and here's what they said. Continue reading
Nov 23 Watch 9:29 Can we reverse radicalization with counselling? By PBS News Hour Can aggressive counseling bring someone back from the brink of radicalization? Science correspondent Miles O’Brien explores the psychological basis for why people are drawn to extremist groups and how a bold experiment in criminal justice and clinical psychology taking place… Continue watching
Nov 23 Under Trump, NASA may lose climate research By Lee Billings, Scientific American President-elect Donald Trump’s next target in his political denial of human-driven global warming and climate change might be NASA’s $2-billion annual budget for Earth science. Continue reading
Nov 22 How big droughts, forest fires could be the new normal in Appalachia By Nsikan Akpan Wildfires have burned more than 100,000 acres across seven states in the southern Appalachian Mountains since late October. Continue reading