Aug 09 New study shows how climate change is driving wildfire season to start earlier in California By Gavin D. Madakumbura, Alex Hall, The Conversation Parts of California are seeing fire season start more than 10 weeks earlier now than in the 1990s. Two authors of a new study explain how climate warming has been driving this trend and why it's likely to continue. Continue reading
Aug 09 Watch 4:48 New study highlights ‘grave, growing’ danger of plastic pollution to world’s health By John Yang, Lorna Baldwin, Kaisha Young In Geneva, negotiators from 175 nations are trying to hammer out the first-ever legally binding treaty on plastic pollution. The urgency of the talks was underscored this week by a new study published in The Lancet. It calls plastics a… Continue watching
Aug 09 Watch 2:09 How radioactive rhino horns could help save the species from poachers By John Yang, Lorna Baldwin The black market trade in rhino horns is driving the species to near extinction. Now, scientists at a rhino orphanage in the Bushveld of South Africa are trying to protect them from poaching in a rather surprising way. John Yang… Continue watching
Aug 09 Analysis: Why NASA is planning to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon and what the law says By Michelle L.D. Hanlon, The Conversation Nuclear reactors in space may sound like something out of science fiction, but they are likely to prove important for powering long-term space missions. Continue reading
Aug 09 Crew-10 astronauts return to Earth in SpaceX capsule after 5 months aboard space station By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press Four astronauts returned to Earth on Saturday after hustling to the International Space Station five months ago to relieve the stuck test pilots of Boeing’s Starliner. Continue reading
Aug 08 Astronaut Butch Wilmore retires from NASA several months after extended spaceflight By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press One of NASA’s two previously stuck astronauts has retired from the space agency, less than five months after his unexpectedly long spaceflight came to an end. Continue reading
Aug 08 Watch 8:24 Scientists face ecological and economic hurdles to save Mississippi River Delta By Miles O'Brien The iconic Mississippi River Delta is of enormous importance to the country, especially near the Gulf Coast. It's an economic engine and a key wildlife habitat. But it's shrinking considerably due to a variety of factors, including engineering done decades… Continue watching
Aug 08 James Lovell, commander of harrowing Apollo 13 moon mission, dies at 97 By Don Babwin, Associated Press “Jim’s character and steadfast courage helped our nation reach the Moon and turned a potential tragedy into a success from which we learned an enormous amount,” NASA said. "We mourn his passing even as we celebrate his achievements.”… Continue reading
Aug 07 Researchers say they have identified the mysterious killer of more than 5 billion sea stars By Christina Larson, Associated Press Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic. Continue reading
Aug 07 OpenAI releases hotly anticipated GPT-5 update By Associated Press Expectations are high for the newest version of OpenAI's flagship model because the San Francisco company has long positioned its technical advancements as a path toward artificial general intelligence, or AGI, a technology that is supposed to surpass humans at… Continue reading