Apr 07 NASA explores the fashionable frontier By Margaret Myers Online voters can select one of three designs that will be used as a cover to protect the spacesuit from abrasions while astronauts train in multiple vacuum chamber tests and at a rocky Martian surface analog site at the… Continue reading
Apr 06 NASA sets solar flare images to music By News Desk NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has released dramatic video of a "mid-level" solar flare from April 2. [youtube:http://youtu.be/_8yPQEE2Dnk] Flares are short, powerful bursts of radiation emitted from the sun's surface. NASA says the radiation cannot penetrate the Earth's atmosphere, but on rare… Continue reading
Apr 03 Potentially lifesaving national landslide maps are 30 years out of date By Tony Schick, Earthfix The last time the U.S. Geological Survey made a national map of landslide hazards, it did so on paper. It didn’t use laser imaging for landslide detection and it didn’t render the maps with the high-powered geographic software near-universally… Continue reading
Apr 03 NASA halts engagement with Russia in response to ‘violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty’ By Ellen Rolfes NASA announced Wednesday that it is halting almost all of its activities and contact with Russia. Continue reading
Apr 02 Is pot getting more potent? By William Brangham The average potency of pot has more than tripled in the past two decades, according to testing done for the federal government. This comes just over a year after Colorado and Washington legalized the drug and as many other states… Continue reading
Apr 02 Watch Amsterdam cafe owner compares pot potency to liquor By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Continue watching
Mar 31 Watch 8:21 Closing window for action on climate change offers consequences and opportunity By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 31 Watch UN panel warns dire threats of climate change may spin ‘out of control’ By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 27 Comet ‘Siding Spring’ will make close approach to Mars By Justin Scuiletti Comet C/2013 A1 will be making a trip through Mars’ neighborhood in October. The comet, also called Siding Spring, will be knocking on the Red Planet’s door, in the astronomical sense, as it passes by Mars at a distance of… Continue reading