Science Sep 26 What to look for in the UN’s mega climate report that’s out Friday Get ready Friday for the first of a three-part, several thousand-page worldwide climate report. Photo of melting ice caps by KEENPRESS/Getty Images. On Friday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will release the first part of its fifth assessment report…
Science Aug 30 Why a Century of Fire Prevention Means Trouble for Yosemite’s Giant Sequoias PBS NewsHour producer Cat Wise and videographer Jason Lelchuk were among the first film crews allowed access to the Hetch Hetchy Dam, which is in the fireline of the massive Rim Fire in Yosemite National Park. Photo by Cat Wise.
Science Aug 26 Breaking Down ‘Breaking Bad’ Walter White demonstrates chemistry as "the study of change" in the pilot episode of AMC's Breaking Bad. Photo by AMC's Breaking Bad. With "Breaking Bad's" return to the airwaves and approaching series finale, we can't help but pause…
Science Aug 22 Thousands of Earthlings Wave to Saturn People around the world shared more than 1,400 images of themselves as part of the Wave at Saturn event organized by NASA's Cassini mission. The mission has assembled this collage from the shared images. Photo courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech. In…
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
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 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
Jul 17 A Moon Called Polyphemus? Naming Neptune’s Newest This computer-generated montage shows Neptune and Triton, Neptune's largest moon, from January 1990. Photo by SSPL/Getty Images. A new, far-flung moon orbiting Neptune was discovered earlier this month and announced this week, bringing that planet's cache of known moons… Continue reading