Since the Wright brothers first took to the skies of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, Dec. 17, 1903, first flights have been important milestones in the life of any vehicle designed for air travel. After all, it’s one thing to design an aircraft and make it fly on paper — or computer. It is quite […]
An excavation site in North Dakota sheds new light on what happened when a giant meteorite struck planet Earth, 66 million years ago. On that day, violent ground shaking first raised giant waves in the waters of an ancient inland sea. Then tiny beads began to fall, created from molten rock cooling at the […]
Female mosquitoes are known to rely on an array of sensory information to find people to bite, picking up on carbon dioxide, body odor, heat, moisture, and visual cues. Now researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on March 28 have discovered how mosquitoes pick up on acidic volatiles found in human sweat. The key is […]
One of 5 Stations to Receive Grant to Develop Educational Materials for new ‘Molly of Denali’ series ANCHORAGE, ALASKA – Alaska Public Media (AKPM) has been selected to receive a $65,000 grant from WGBH, funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, to help design educational resources for the upcoming PBS KIDS series Molly of […]