Jun 30 Journey to the mysterious gray rock By Jenny Marder This Science Bedtime Story tells the incredible - and briefly, terrifying - story of the intrepid spacecraft that flew to Pluto and of Alice Bowman, a little girl who loved space and grew up to become one of the mission's… Continue reading
Jun 30 Witness Jupiter’s spooky northern lights By Nsikan Akpan The Hubble telescope, the talisman space observatory, has captured fresh images of Jupiter’s auroras as Juno spacecraft makes its final approach to the planet. Continue reading
Jun 29 Watch 7:34 NASA promising July 4 big bang — and lots of science — when Juno probe reaches Jupiter By PBS News Hour On Independence Day NASA’s Juno spacecraft reaches the largest planet in our solar system and is expected to transmit pictures the 1.8 billion miles back to Earth. But even more interesting than pictures, scientists hope to collect tons of data… Continue watching
Jun 28 Amber fossils tell 99 million-year-old story of unusual baby birds By Nsikan Akpan A pair of 99 million-year-old fossils reveal Cretaceous baby birds with finger claws and adultlike feathers. Continue reading
Jun 24 Naked lizard proves hair, scales and feathers descend from single reptilian ancestor, study says By Leigh Anne Tiffany A decades-long scientific debate is finally resolved, thanks to a scaleless mutant lizard. Continue reading
Jun 15 Mirror-image molecule near Milky Way’s heart gives glimmer of life’s origins By Nsikan Akpan A weird chemical phenomenon called chirality, which is critical for life, has been observed in space for the first time. Continue reading
Jun 09 What a smell looks like By Nsikan Akpan, Matt Ehrichs Smells are normally invisible, but this lab in Colorado uses lasers to bring odors to life. The research is part of a nationwide project to build a robot that can smell. Continue reading
May 26 Supermassive black holes spawn galactic deserts without new stars By Nsikan Akpan Astronomers find a supermassive black hole that stifles star formation by causing galactic warming. Continue reading
May 25 Watch 3:37 Why research for the pure sake of knowing is enough By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 25 Fossilized bubbles could expand our search for habitable planets By Nsikan Akpan Bubbles buried in ancient lava on Earth may guide the search of habitable exoplanets. Continue reading