News Mash-up: Animals Posted March 25, 2022 Biden family welcomes Willow, a Pennsylvanian farm cat, to White House The Biden family finally has a cat. First lady …
News Mash-up: Amazing Animals Posted March 9, 2022 Magawa, Cambodia's landmine-sniffing 'hero' rat, dies in retirement, age 8 He found more than 100 landmines and explosiv…
New NASA Telescope Promises a New Era for Astronomy Part 2 Posted March 6, 2022 Continued from Part 1… Scientists plan to use the telescope to learn about all phases of the universe’s history dating back to just after the Big Bang event about 13.8…
New NASA Telescope Promises a New Era for Astronomy Part 1 Posted March 5, 2022 It was finished years late at a cost far higher than planned, but NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, which launched Dec. 25, may usher in a new era in astronomy a…
What is Space Debris, and How Dangerous is it? Part 2 Posted February 13, 2022 Continued from Part 1… The European Space Agency (ESA) estimates the total mass of all space objects in Earth orbit is more than 9,600 tons. In a few …
What is Space Debris, and How Dangerous is it? Part 1 Posted February 12, 2022 Russia’s test Nov. 15 to blow up one of its own satellites in space has drawn criticism for endangering the crew of the International Space Stati…
Python sails from Florida Keys to mainland Posted January 31, 2022 A python looking for a joyride snuck aboard a sailboat in the Florida Keys and ended up staying until the boat finished its nearly 160-kilometer voyage, police sa…
News Mash-up: Space Posted January 28, 2022 SpaceX delivers four new crew members to join space station until spring A SpaceX capsule with four astr…
Nations compromise on coal to strike UN climate agreement Posted January 20, 2022 U.N. climate talks ended Nov. 13 with a deal that for the first time targeted fossil fuels as the key driver of global warming, even as coal-reliant countries lob…
Doug the ugly potato could be world’s biggest Posted January 13, 2022 Colin and Donna Craig-Brown were weeding their garden in New Zealand when Colin’s hoe struck something huge just beneath the soil’s surface. As the couple knelt down