20 Jun News Climate change made killer heat wave in Mexico, Southwest US even warmer and 35 times more likely A new study finds that human-caused climate change dialed up the heat and drastically increased the Read More
20 Jun News Alberto, season’s first named tropical storm, dumps rain on Texas and Mexico, which reports 3 deaths Tropical Storm Alberto is rumbling toward northeast Mexico as the first named storm of the season, c Read More
19 Jun News Colombian family’s genes offer new clue to delaying onset of Alzheimer’s Scientists studying a Colombian family plagued by early-in-life Alzheimer’s have found a rare Read More
19 Jun News Alert: Scientists studying a family plagued by early Alzheimer’s found some carry a genetic oddity that delays their symptoms Scientists studying a family plagued by early Alzheimer’s found some carry a genetic oddity that d Read More
19 Jun News Collecting sex-crazed zombie cicadas on speed: Scientists track a bug-controlling super-sized fungus With their bulging red eyes and their alien-like mating sound, periodical cicadas can seem scary and Read More
19 Jun News It’s summer solstice time. What does that mean? Summer kicks off in the Northern Hemisphere with the summer solstice on Thursday. The Earth spins on Read More
19 Jun News For the endangered Nashville crayfish, its rebound is both good and bad news The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering removing the Nashville crayfish from the endangere Read More
18 Jun News What’s a heat dome? Here’s why so much of the US is broiling this week Much of the Midwest and the Northeast is broiling — or set to broil — in extreme summer heat thi Read More
18 Jun News Undersea explorers mark a tragic day. Things to know about the Titan disaster anniversary Unanswered questions linger a year after the implosion of the Titan submersible during its deep-sea Read More
17 Jun News A year after the Titan’s tragic dive, deep-sea explorers vow to pursue ocean’s mysteries The deadly implosion of an experimental submersible en route to the deep-sea grave of the Titanic la Read More
29 Feb News First US moon lander in half a century stops working a week after tipping over at touchdown The first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon since the Apollo astronauts has fallen silent, a week Read More
29 Feb News Climate change cost U.S. ski industry billions, study says, and future depends on emissions A new study says U.S. ski areas lost $5 billion from 2000 to 2019 as a result of human-caused climat Read More
29 Feb News First drone probe of melted fuel inside Fukushima Daiichi reactor halted due to equipment glitch Japanese authorities say they had to abandon plans to send in drones for a second day to probe one o Read More
29 Feb News Fired scientists in Canada failed to acknowledge links to China, newly released records say Two scientists at a high-security infectious disease laboratory in Canada lost their jobs after secu Read More
29 Feb News Russian rocket successfully puts Iranian satellite into orbit A Russian rocket has successfully put an Iranian satellite into orbit, a launch that underlines incr Read More
29 Feb News Visitors line up to see and smell a corpse flower’s stinking bloom in San Francisco Crowds have lined up in San Francisco to see and smell the rare blooming an endangered tropical flow Read More
28 Feb News Private US moon lander still working after breaking leg and falling, but not for long The first private U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon broke a leg at touchdown before falling over. Read More
28 Feb News Russian space officials say air leak at International Space Station poses no danger to its crew Russian space officials have acknowledged a continuing air leak from the Russian segment of the Inte Read More
28 Feb News Conservationist Aldo Leopold’s last remaining child dies at 97 The last remaining child of famed conservationist and author Aldo Leopold has died. Estella Leopold Read More
28 Feb News Scientists create new idea on how to hack a warming planet: drying the upper atmosphere Government scientists have cooked up a new concept for how to potentially cool an overheating Earth: Read More
28 Feb News Our ancient animal ancestors had tails. Why don’t we? Scientists have identified a gene mutation that may explain why we don’t have tails. Our very Read More
28 Feb News A New York collector pleads guilty to smuggling rare birdwing butterflies A New York man has pleaded guilty to charges he illegally trafficked birdwing butterflies and other Read More
Alert: Scientists studying a family plagued by early Alzheimer’s found some carry a genetic oddity that delays their symptoms
