Jun 26 How Hurling Spears 2 Million Years Ago May Have Given Us a 96-mph Fastball MVP pitcher Justin Verlander is known for consistently throwing heat for the Detroit Tigers. In a study published this week, scientists learn how professional pitchers can throw with such high velocity and what this skill meant in our evolution. Continue reading
Jun 25 Obama on Climate Change: Don’t Fear the Future, Seize It EmbedVideo(6783, 482, 304); Watch President Barack Obama's announcement of his new climate plan. Update: 2:30 p.m. ET | With sweat glistening on his forehead in the balmy Washington, D.C., heat, President Obama outlined a sweeping new climate plan… Continue reading
Jun 24 Geek Alert: Why Do Data Stories? EmbedVideo(6758, 482, 304); Political editor Christina Bellantoni interviewed data producer Elizabeth Shell about the in-depth interactive, New Adventures for Older Workers, on the lessons learned, pitfalls, whys and hows of the project. People are putting off… Continue reading
Jun 21 Sunday’s Supermoon: Overhyped? The nearside of the moon. Photo by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. A message to the skywatchers: tilt your head back after nightfall on Sunday, and you'll see the closest full moon of the year -- a phenomenon… Continue reading
Jun 19 Clarinet Player Seeks Cicadas for Jam Session EmbedVideo(6721, 482, 304); Musician David Rothenberg plays his clarinet with the buzz of cicadas as his accompaniment. In early June, David Rothenberg journeyed to the Ulster County Fairgrounds in New York's Hudson Valley in search of fellow… Continue reading
Jun 18 How to Woo a Cicada A periodical cicada basks in the sun at a cemetery in Lorton, Virginia. Photo by Jenny Marder. On a hot spring day in late May, I went hunting for periodical cicadas with John Cooley, a veteran expert… Continue reading
Jun 14 Watch Six Months After Newtown, Battle Over Gun Control Continues Twenty-six seconds of silence were observed in honor of the victims killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School at a memorial organized to mark six months since the massacre. Margaret Warner reports on how lawmakers and activists are engaged in the… Continue watching
Jun 14 Without Money to Retire, Paramedic Must Stay Healthy to Keep Working EmbedVideo(6691, 482, 304); Joel Peters, 62, plans on working as a paramedic for as long as he can perform the physically demanding job. Video shot and produced by David Pelcyger. Sixty-two isn't too old to be a paramedic,… Continue reading
Jun 12 Gullies on Mars Give Way to Dreams of Snowboarding in Space This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is an example "linear gullies" formed by dry ice thawing across the planet's sand dunes. Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona. Mars' surface is streaked… Continue reading
Jun 11 From Lecture Hall to Graveyard EmbedVideo(6666, 482, 304); Professor Ronald Stockton is happy leading his classes on long hikes through the cemeteries of metro Detroit. He'll only retire when he can no longer inspire his eager students at the University of Michigan, Dearborn. Ronald… Continue reading