Dec 03 Sports fans cause minor earthquake in Seattle By News Desk Seahawks fans celebrate at CenturyLink field during a 2013 home game.Photo by Flickr userPhilip Robertson Jumping up and down in one's living room to celebrate a touchdown pass hardly qualifies as seismic activity. Yet Monday night in Seattle's… Continue reading
Dec 02 Video: Rangers recover wildlife camera stolen by Australian sea eagle .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } An Australian sea eagle stole… Continue reading
Nov 30 Watch Ground Zero for climate change in Alaska More than 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle, Alaska’s North Slope is ground zero for global climate change. NewsHour producer April Brown reports the melting ice has opened up opportunity for shipping and other development – industry that could… Continue watching
Nov 29 Watch Cassini spacecraft’s cosmic photos bring the world ‘along for the ride’ Cassini spacecraft's cosmic photos bring the world 'along for the ride'… Continue watching
Nov 29 Budget cuts threaten one of NASA’s most accomplished deep-space photographers EmbedVideo(8126); The Cassini spacecraft has taken stunning photos of Saturn, including its most recent portrait of the ringed planet with Mars, Venus, the Earth and the Moon visible. But with NASA budget cuts looming, could… Continue reading
Nov 29 Update: Comet ISON may have survived close encounter with the sun .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } Material from Comet ISON appeared… Continue reading
Nov 28 SpaceX aborts second attempt to launch Falcon 9 rocket #SpaceX #SES8 aborts launch again, at 48 seconds http://t.co/DqYW06PYdI pic.twitter.com/BjmWn5FbxO— Circa (@Circa) November 28, 2013 Updated 6:53 p.m. EST | Engineers scrubbed a second attempt to launch the Falcon 9 rocket, determining… Continue reading
Nov 27 Watch Did Warsaw conference put world on track towards ‘new global climate regime’? Did Warsaw conference put world on track towards 'new global climate regime'?… Continue watching
Nov 27 Vintners make wine with the power of waste water Water is precious, especially for a vintner. Making a gallon of wine requires anywhere from a few dozen to a few hundred gallons of water.The Clois du Bois winery in Sonoma County, Calif., spends hundreds of thousands of… Continue reading
Nov 27 Will Comet ISON survive a Thanksgiving roasting? Comet ISON photographed via a telescope on November 8, 2013. Photo by Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona While Americans cook their Thanksgiving turkeys on Thursday, a tiny comet called ISON will pass 684,000 miles above the surface… Continue reading