National parks will be bizarre this summer
A vicious wildfire closed Yosemite National Park in August 1990. Described as “no joke” by a truck driver who escaped the flames, over 6,000 firefighters combated the blaze, remembers Phil…
NASA shows how it will launch its giant space telescope in a short video
[embedded content] With a shield about the length of a tennis court, the colossal James Webb Space Telescope — the next generation of space telescope due to launch in 2021…
Skywatching is lit in May, says NASA
Here’s a wholesome quarantine activity: For the rest of May you can view bright objects in our solar system and beyond — both before sunrise and after sunset. NASA reminded…
What coronavirus outbreaks have in common
Coronavirus outbreaks have some glaring things in common. Even though people crowded into Wisconsin bars Wednesday night, there’s definitive evidence that big spreading events happen indoors — at restaurants, workplaces,…
Face masks show Earth’s grim warming trend
The planet’s heating trend has ramped up over the last 40 years — as CO2 emissions have skyrocketed. Nineteen of the last 20 years are now the warmest on record.…
Why ‘murder hornet’ is a terrible name
Just call them giant hornets. The term “murder hornet” skyrocketed into popularity last week after the New York Times published a viral story about the arrival of an invasive insect…
‘Asshole’ yeast scientist has some bad news about your sourdough starter
By Brittany Levine Beckman and Mark Stetson2020-05-10 14:00:00 UTC Internet of Yum digs into all the things that make us drool while we’re checking our feeds. The coronavirus came and…
The deceiving thing about the big, historic drop in CO2 emissions
Eye-opening, powerful words are now used to describe plummeting CO2 emissions in 2020. It “would be the largest decrease in emissions ever recorded,” the International Energy Agency said Thursday. Spurred…
There’s officially a snake named after Salazar Slytherin now
Researchers discovered a new species of venomous snake, and the Sorting Hat declared it a Slytherin. In a report this month in Zoosystematics and Evolution, a team of scientists from…