science / science - 6 years ago
Another round of snow and treacherous travel is in store for the north-central United States and the Rockies in the final days of 2018 before the coldest air so far this winter plunges in.
science / science - 6 years ago
With the end of 2018 comes the near-certain reality that some critters, after millions of years of existence on Earth, are gone for good. There's little question that humanity's continued exploitation of wild animals and the depletion of t...
science / science - 6 years ago
I read the phrase “super blood wolf moon” for the first time today and wish I’d never logged on.
science / science - 6 years ago
Toyota’s got big plans for robots, Elon Musk’s Twitter feed might finally be reined in, and Palladium is “this year’s hottest metal.” All that and more on The Morning Shift for Friday, December 28th, 2018.
science / science - 6 years ago
Here's how it works.
science / science - 6 years ago
From supermoons to harvest moons and blood moons, the first half of 2019 is going to be a wild ride. Take note of these full moon dates, and prepare accordingly.
science / science - 6 years ago
Britain's Royal Mail apologized on Friday after historians pointed out that a stamp design it planned to issue to commemorate the D-Day landings in France in fact showed U.S. troops going ashore thousands of miles away weeks earlier. The stamp, part...
science / science - 6 years ago
Bomb cyclones, major hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes and major flooding produced some memorable and tragic photos in 2018.
science / science - 6 years ago
Germany on Friday cleared away legal hurdles for carmakers to upgrade exhaust emissions filtering systems on older diesel cars as a way to avoid vehicle bans, but failed to quell doubts among manufacturers and suppliers over the effectiveness of retr...
science / science - 6 years ago
A petition launched by French environmental groups calling for legal action against the state for failing to act to curb climate change has received unprecedented public support after weeks of fuel-price protests. It also dwarfs the 1.17 million sup...
science / science - 6 years ago
China is working on experimental technologies to make even its older aircraft appear stealthy to most radar systems.
science / science - 6 years ago
That could be the plan.
science / science - 6 years ago
U.S. President Donald Trump's criticism of the Russian-backed Nord Stream 2 pipeline is no reason to stop the project and any attempt to do so would be difficult now that it is being built, European Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said. Trump has at...
science / science - 6 years ago
There’s the cough—and then some.
science / science - 6 years ago
These infections don't always cause symptoms.