Aug 05 Mars Rover Mission Team Celebrates One Year The Mars Curiosity Rover team celebrates on Aug. 5, 2012, inside the spaceflight operations facility at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as the first pictures appear on screen after a successful landing on Mars. Photo by Brian van der Brug-Pool/Getty… Continue reading
Aug 02 Watch Researchers Steer Off Course to Show Potential Power of 'GPS Spoofing' Researchers Steer Off Course to Show Potential Power of 'GPS Spoofing'… Continue watching
Aug 02 Watch Pacific Northwest Weighs Environmental Risks of Cashing in on Coal Export Market Pacific Northwest Weighs Environmental Risks of Cashing in on Coal Export Market… Continue watching
Jul 31 Unlocking the Secrets of a Swimmer's Scourge, the Jellyfish Sting Updated: August 5 | On the morning of July 29, 1997, while swimming off the shore of Waikiki, a throng of box jellyfish stung Angel Yanagihara along her neck, arms and ankles. She swam back to shore… Continue reading
Jul 29 Oceans Rise With Every Liter of Fuel Burned, Study Warns A new analysis released today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences includes these mind-numbing statistics: One single liter of petroleum gas burned may add 647 liters of sea volume. One ton of coal… Continue reading
Jul 26 Watch A Look Around the Ruins of Fukushima, Where Radiation Still Poses Danger A Look Around the Ruins of Fukushima, Where Radiation Still Poses Danger… Continue watching
Jul 26 Shooting One Owl to Save Another The spotted owl, with its big, bright eyes, sweet face and feathers like eyebrows, is vanishing. In Northern Washington alone, spotted owl populations plummeted 55 percent between 1996 to 2006. Since the bird was listed as a threatened species in… Continue reading
Jul 24 Science 'Classroom Without Walls' Replete with Snapping Turtles, Snakes EmbedVideo(7015, 482, 304); Eighth grade teacher Darrell Walker routinely teaches his science class in the wetlands behind their North Carolina middle school. Video by Rebecca Jacobson "Snake! Snake!" an eighth-grade student shouts from the boardwalk as she crosses… Continue reading
Jul 23 Elusive 'Corpse' Flower Readies for Collapse An estimated 120,000 people have viewed the giant "corpse flower" since it bloomed Sunday at the U.S. Botanic Garden. Photo by Justin Scuiletti. WASHINGTON -- After stubbornly staying closed days longer than expected, the U.S. Botanic Garden's great… Continue reading
Jul 19 Earth and Moon Join Saturn in Interplanetary Photoshoot This picture of Earth from space was taken in June 2001 from the International Space Station orbiting at an altitude of 211 nautical miles. Photo by NASA. Okay, so it's kind of gimmicky, but it's all in the spirit… Continue reading