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Renewable Energy Shatters Records in the U.S.

The U.S. has never had as much wind, solar and hydropower. But experts say it’s ...

Earthquake Shakes New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylva...

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck near Lebanon, N.J., at 10:23 A.M. EDT. Shaking...

How Ancient Humans Studied—And Predicted—Solar Eclipses

Dragon bones, mysterious carvings and simple math reveal ancient eclipses

How a total solar eclipse in 1919 left physicists 'more...

One total solar eclipse changed physics forever – and even to this day these cel...

Astronauts Protect Their Eyes with Eclipse Glasses

While visiting NASA Headquarters in Washington on March 19, 2024, astronauts Ste...

NASA Selects University Teams to Compete in 2024 RASC-A...

Fourteen undergraduate and graduate teams from across the country were selected ...

NASA Langley Team to Study Weather During Eclipse Using...

A six-person team of researchers from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton,...

Introduction to Spectrum

You can’t see it. . .you can’t touch it. . .you can’t live without it. Use these...

NASA’s LRO Finds Photo Op as It Zips Past SKorea’s Danu...

NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter), which has been circling and studying ...

AI Chatbots Will Never Stop Hallucinating

Some amount of chatbot hallucination is inevitable. But there are ways to minimi...

How Do Periodical Cicadas Know When to Emerge?

Periodical cicadas have a clever hack to help them figure out when to emerge aft...

It’s Never Too Late to Take Climate Action

The depiction of the climate crisis as a cliff—once we fall off the edge, it’s g...

The Dunning-Kruger Effect Shows that People Don’t Know ...

David Dunning explains how people can avoid overestimating their own knowledge, ...

Left-handed monkeys prompt rethink about evolution of r...

A popular idea links primates living on the ground with a tendency for right-han...

40 Years Ago: STS-41C, the Solar Max Repair Mission

On Apr. 6, 1984, space shuttle Challenger took off on its fifth flight, STS-41C....

Lagniappe for April 2024

Explore the April 2024 issue featuring: Gator Speaks Picture this. The year is 2...

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