Pluto is coming into focus as New Horizons zooms in close
The New Horizons mission is coming down to the wire.NASA's mission to the outer reaches of our solar system launched in 2006 and has travelled billions of miles in the past nine years. The probe is...
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Scientists consider whether krill need to be protected from human over-hunting
Barely longer than your thumb, weighing less than an ounce and nearly translucent, delicate crustaceans known as krill are vital to ocean ecosystems around the world. In the waters that encircle...
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From California to New England, our relationship with water is changing
Water might as well be a person. It has moods like a person: maybe a running brook when it’s happy; a gentle rain when it’s blue; a storm when it’s angry.Cavemen were grateful when water was in a good...
View ArticleLong flights are getting longer, and you can blame climate change, study says
If you already don’t like flying, we have some bad news.A new study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, says that long flights are getting longer. This is because the jet stream, the...
View ArticleDo not disturb: Nepal closes a national park to give mating red pandas some...
Langtang National Park, Nepal’s first Himalayan national park and the one nearest the capital, Kathmandu, has been declared a restricted zone by local authorities to allow red pandas to mate.The shy...
View ArticleThe record-breaking solar plane, Solar Impulse 2, is grounded in Hawaii
Most people would relish the opportunity to take eight months off in Hawaii, but for the team behind Solar Impulse 2, it’s pretty disappointing.Just two weeks after completing a record-breaking flight...
View ArticleGrounded pilots turn their attention to unmanned solar flight
At the end of his record-breaking solar-powered flight from Japan to Hawaii, Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg was counting down the minutes until he was back on the ground.Early on in the flight,...
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In Nepal, one problem is the earthquake didn't knock down enough houses
The air in the village of Archalbot is thick under the glare of the 2 p.m. sun. Twelve-year-old Kushal Adhikari is showing me around his house.“All over there is cracks, cracks and more cracks,” he...
View ArticleThe New Horizons trip to Pluto will rewrite textbooks on space
This is Pluto — or, more specifically, a close-up of terrain bordering a heart-shaped feature dubbed “Tombaugh Regio,” for Pluto's discoverer, Clyde Tombaugh. The detail reveals a range of “young”...
View ArticleHow a whole new world of technology reinvented Disney
It’s a typical day in “The Happiest Place on Earth.” The sun is shinning and roller coasters are coasting. It also happens to be a small park-goer's birthday. As the child walks from ride to ride,...
View ArticleSurvey finds bicyclists and motorists ignore traffic laws at similar rates
Answer honestly. As a bicyclist do you follow all the rules and regulations of the road?Ever zipped over the speed limit, or glided past a stop sign when no one’s around?When it comes to obeying...
View ArticleHow will the Pacific Northwest change when its glaciers are gone?
Glaciers set the Pacific Northwest apart and are essential for supplying the region’s drinking water, hydropower and for ensuring the survival of the region's iconic salmon.But disappearing glaciers...
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The $50 billion plan to save Louisiana's wetlands
Louisiana is in trouble. The Mississippi River Delta is disappearing into the Gulf of Mexico at the rate of 16 square miles a year, some of the fastest land loss on the planet.The bayou lands are...
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From napalm to nature: How the bald eagle helped turn a weapons factory into...
Right after Pearl Harbor, the US government began construction of a weapons factory on a site just outside of Denver, Colorado. Years later, the plant was converted into a pesticide factory. Now, the...
View ArticlePrice check: Companies could be using your data to charge you more
Last year, Netflix and Delta Airlines rolled out serious price bumps by switching to a tiered buying model. The companies had caught on to a major pattern: if we can pay more, we will.But what if they...
View ArticleHorses, dogs, penguins, and more will soon be able to fly in style
New York's JFK airport is trying to cater to a new passenger demographic.Construction is underway on the first airport terminal that will cater exclusively to animals, called the ARK after the biblical...
View ArticleWe're running out of water. Is desalination the answer?
On a Friday this spring, a group of students from Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies drove two hours to visit Swansea, Mass., a community with rolling green hills on the...
View ArticleThe cyclone came and went. The moneylenders, however, keep plaguing India's...
Months after a cyclone chewed apart his roof and hurled scrap metal slicing into his leg, Tirupathirao Mittireddi can’t get much sleep. But it’s not the natural elements he’s afraid of. It’s the...
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Korean adoptees are using DNA kits to get a glimpse of their ancestry
I don’t know the actual day I was born. I also don’t know anything about the woman who gave birth to me. Was she married? Was she single? Was she young? Was she pretty? Was she happy? I know I was born...
View ArticleTake a seat on the virtual couch with computers that can read your emotions
When a computer starts acting emotional, it’s usually the point in the sci-fi movie when the hero has to run for his or her life.But Rosalind Picard thinks you probably shouldn’t go to the giant red...
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