• How NASA measures the death of a glacier from space

    How NASA measures the death of a glacier from space

    Sep 02, 2015 10:40 PM EDT

    ... isn’t solid. They move and ooze, dragging rocks and sediment with them, Fagre said. Glaciers move under the pressure of their own weight and gravity, carving any earth that’s in the way, and they must be roughly 25 acres large to do so. But when their rate of ...

  • Nepal gets a piece of Pluto plus four new surprises from New Horizons

    Nepal gets a piece of Pluto plus four new surprises from New Horizons

    Jul 17, 2015 10:51 PM EDT

    ... and a peek at a set of frozen plains located to the north, which have been dubbed Sputnik Planum after USSR’s first space probe. https://youtu.be/hlZh9UY9pGY Animated flyby of Pluto’s Norgay Montes and nearby plains, Sputnik Planum. “The flyover is made as if your eye was ...

  • How seeing a black hole's shadow will tell us if Einstein was right

    How seeing a black hole's shadow will tell us if Einstein was right

    Nov 25, 2014 11:37 PM EDT

    ... flashing a “thumbs up”. They printed the image and tacked it up in the control room, on a white board atop shift schedules and notes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbVJDbp72Q8 How does it feel working 16,500 feet above sea level? Scientists at the ALMA observatory in Chile ...

  • India becomes first Asian nation to put spacecraft in Mars' orbit

    India becomes first Asian nation to put spacecraft in Mars' orbit

    Sep 24, 2014 08:13 PM EDT

    ... mission that also reached Mars this week. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, among others, noted the figure was less than the budget of the Hollywood blockbuster “Gravity.” The Mars Orbiter Mission is the first successful Asian attempt to reach the planet, and joins NASA, the European space agency and Russia in ...

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    Statue of naked, sleepwalking man provokes controversy at women’s college

    Feb 07, 2014 11:16 PM EDT

    https://twitter.com/BostonGlobe/status/431462591307988992 A nearly naked older man has been lurking around Wellesley College for a week. Perhaps ‘lurking’ is the wrong word because the man is completely stationary. In fact, the man is a sculpture by the artist Tony Matelli on display until July 20. The ...

  • WATCH: Vought won't say how much Trump has spent on Iran war so far

    WATCH: Vought won't say how much Trump has spent on Iran war so far

    Apr 16, 2026 08:37 PM EDT

    ... prompting Murray to say that Congress has to know how much is being spent so they can put their budgets together and make annual preparations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBqcQgLFxHY “I just find it outrageous that as director you're not willing to tell us what those costs ...

  • WATCH: OMB chief Vought says Homeland Security is 'disintegrating' during shutdown

    WATCH: OMB chief Vought says Homeland Security is 'disintegrating' during shutdown

    Apr 16, 2026 07:51 PM EDT

    ... to avoid another 9/11 — the whole damn thing is shut down. So if there is another 9/11, don’t blame me,” he added. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFD0P1MTj1k Vought, a key figure in the Trump administration's efforts to shrink the federal workforce, also defended the ...

  • Why so many Americans are using AI for health guidance

    Why so many Americans are using AI for health guidance

    Apr 16, 2026 05:00 PM EDT

    The Gallup survey found about 7 in 10 U.S. adults who have used AI for health research in the past 30 days say they wanted quick answers, additional information or were simply curious. Majorities used it for research before seeing a doctor or after an appointment. https://www.youtube ...

  • Rising energy costs force some states to reassess ambitious climate goals

    Rising energy costs force some states to reassess ambitious climate goals

    Apr 16, 2026 04:45 PM EDT

    ... climate credit” on their bills, said Kyle Meng, associate professor of economics at UC Santa Barbara. “When you make things more expensive, people conserve. It’s like Econ 101 and that’s the basic idea behind a cap-and-trade program,” Meng said. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdzjrVwWz4o

  • OpenAI focuses on business users amid competition with rival Anthropic

    OpenAI focuses on business users amid competition with rival Anthropic

    Apr 16, 2026 04:17 PM EDT

    ... great companies are very good at, in a reasonable period of time, kind of doing that winnowing down and refocusing and it’s super painful.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMaCfQMlXY0 Signaling that shift was the hiring three months ago of Slack CEO Denise Dresser to be OpenAI's ...