Jul 08 Montanans Worry About Fallout from Yellowstone Spill "The last, best place." That's how Montanans often describe their state to outsiders. "A great place to raise a family" is also popular. They brag about their deep blue "Big Sky," the scenery, and the hunting and… Continue reading
Jul 08 Atlantis Lifts Off Into History, Launching Last Shuttle Mission EmbedVideo(959, 482, 304); Against grim weather odds, space shuttle Atlantis and her four-person crew made history on Friday, blasting off from the launch pad and soaring into the clouds, bound for space and the International Space Station for… Continue reading
Jul 08 Watch Atlantis Launches on Historic Mission The space shuttle Atlantis lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center for the final mission of the 30-year-old program Friday morning. Continue watching
Jul 07 Watch Mock Mission to Mars Tests Psychological Rigors of Long-Distance Space Travel Mock Mission to Mars Tests Rigors of Long-Distance Space Travel… Continue watching
Jul 07 Miles O'Brien: 'Mixed Emotions' Surround Final Space Shuttle Launch The space shuttle Atlantis launch will mark the last liftoff for NASA's shuttle program. NASA photo. Miles O'Brien has covered 40 space shuttle launches. He led CNN's coverage of the loss of space shuttle, Columbia, and he co-anchored astronaut… Continue reading
Jul 07 Watch Miles O'Brien on the Last Shuttle Launch Hari talks to Miles O'Brien about the space shuttle program, on the eve of its retirement. Continue watching
Jul 06 Wrinkled When Wet: Accidental or Adaptive? By Jenny Marder Fingers wrinkled after an afternoon snorkeling. Photo by notanyron via Flickr Creative Commons Beachgoers know it well. You soak in the sea or the tub long enough, and your waterlogged fingers get puckered and funny looking. But why do our… Continue reading
Jul 06 Obama to Host Twitter Town Hall The White House, @whitehouse, will host its first Twitter town hall. Wednesday, the medium is the message. Sure, President Obama may use his 2 p.m. ET Twitter event to move the ball rhetorically on the deficit talks, but… Continue reading
Jul 05 Watch Schweitzer Confident of Full Oil Spill Cleanup, Future Pipelines Will Be OK Three days after an ExxonMobil pipeline ruptured on the Yellowstone River, spewing 42,000 gallons of crude oil, crews are still scrambling to contain the spill but rising water levels blocked efforts to reach some of the soiled shoreline. Jeffrey Brown… Continue watching
Jul 05 'Microsleep' Software Doubles Battery Life of Connected Gadgets By Larisa Epatko and Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American Photo by Pete Prodoehl via Flickr Creative Commons No matter how fancy mobile gadgets get, they're useless when their batteries run out. With the push toward cloud computing and the always-on wireless culture gaining momentum every day, laptop, tablet and… Continue reading