On its 80th birthday, International Whaling Commission encounters familiar impasses
Pro-whaling nations have used their numbers to block a 28-year push to set up a massive whale sanctuary…
Radio signal detected from exoplanet for the first time
(CNN) – For the first time, astronomers say they have detected radio waves from a planet outside our…
Canada’s Atlantic waters are attracting more great white sharks
Alanna Canaran, a dive instructor and ocean science educator based in Novia Scotia’s capital, Halifax, first moved to…
NASA’s Roman telescope just opened its planet-hunting eye
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has completed an important series of tests showing that it can keep…
First Animals May Have Appeared 200 Million Years Earlier than Their Oldest Fossils Suggest
The oldest undisputed animal fossils, from the Ediacaran biota, are about 574 million years old, but chemical traces…
Helmut Katzgraber (55North): Why materials simulation beats optimization for near-term quantum
Yuval Boger interviews Helmut Katzgraber, general partner at 55North and former quantum leader at AWS. They discuss Helmut’s…
Peak season for wildlife crashes in Colorado begins; here are the highest-risk roads
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – The Colorado State Patrol is reminding drivers that October through December is the…
See the face and hair of an Indigenous man who lived in Ecuador 3,000 years ago
An international team has reconstructed the face of a man who lived in what’s now Ecuador more than…
How the West is preparing for a drier future as water supplies hit lows
Mandatory cuts from the federal government on water from the Colorado River will soon take effect in Arizona,…
On this day in space! Oct. 2, 2015: The United Launch Alliance launches its 100th rocket with Atlas V flight for Mexico
On Oct. 2, 2015, the United Launch Alliance launched its 100th rocket! The United Launch Alliance (ULA) is…
The only reserve in Africa where you can walk with cheetahs
During a recent walk through Samara Karoo Reserve in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, I learned the recipe for…
There’s a New Sea Spider in Town
What has hairy feet, legs dotted with eggs, and a mouth loaded with tentacles like a Sarlacc from…