Saving Sochi's slopes: How artificial snow is made
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18, 2014 — In what may be the warmest Winter Olympics on record, Sochi looks more like SoCal by the day.
Watch a Near Earth Object Whiz Past the Earth this Evening
Despite its large size, the size of three football fields, asteroid 2000 EM26 cannot be seen from the usual backyard telescope as it zooms past the earth tonight beginning at 5pm Alaska Time.
Scientists Discover the Underlying Mechanism of Heart Failure in Fish Exposed to Oil Spills
Researchers from NOAA Fisheries and Stanford University find that some petroleum compounds act as ion channel blockers in the heart cells of young tuna, disrupting normal cardiac function.
America's only Clovis Skeleton has its Genome Mapped
They lived in America about 13,000 years ago where they hunted mammoth, mastodons and giant bison with big spears. The Clovis people were not the first humans in America, but they represent the first humans with a wide expansion on the North American continent – until the culture mysteriously disappeared only a few hundred years […]