In the mountains and plains of upper Laos sit thousands of stone jars, the only relics…
Total Solar Eclipse Darkens the South Pacific
On July 2, 2019, skywatchers in the beach city of La Serena, Chile, looked up at…
AMSAT Announces New Board of Directors Election Process
AMSAT will provide its members with online voting as the 2019 AMSAT Board of Directors election…
Transformed tobacco fields could cuts costs for medical proteins
A new Cornell University-led study describes the first successful rearing of engineered tobacco plants in order…
Snowball the dancing cockatoo has many moves
A sulphur-crested cockatoo named Snowball garnered YouTube fame and headlines a decade ago for his uncanny…
Regulation and reality in reducing global warming
While Donald Trump’s functionaries continue to deny the science of climate change, American states are setting…
Researchers can finally modify plant mitochondrial DNA
Researchers in Japan have edited plant mitochondrial DNA for the first time, which could lead to…
Grazing animals drove domestication of grain crops
Many familiar grains today, like quinoa, amaranth, millets, hemp and buckwheat, have traits that indicate that…
Everest: I interviewed people risking their lives in the 'death zone' during one of the deadliest seasons yet
Climbing some of the world’s tallest mountains, you enter the “death zone” when you are 8,000…
Before moon landing, astronauts learned geology in Arizona
Before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin knew they would be the first to walk on the…