The city of Spokane promised to simplify recycling 13 years ago, telling residents they could dump aluminum cans, plastics, newsprint, paper, cardboard boxes, wine bottles and more into one large blue bin and roll it to the curb on garbage day.
PARIS – As the Trump administration slashes support to research institutions and threatens to freeze federal funding to universities such as Harvard and Columbia, European leaders are offering help to U.S.-based researchers and hoping to benefit from what they are calling a “gigantic miscalculation.”
Turkey vultures have a major PR problem. Many people view them as black-feathered villains with menacing bone-colored beaks that skulk on tree branches and circle the skies waiting for animals and humans to die. But a growing body of research shows they are unaggressive, graceful and gentle. What’s more, they are nature’s ultimate clean-up crew.
Part of a spacecraft that launched in 1972 and has been orbiting Earth for 53 years is due to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere in the next two weeks and could crash to the ground intact, scientists say.
The Trump administration announced a flurry of measures to target PFAS contamination, but it stayed mum on whether it intends to uphold a Biden-era rule requiring utilities to remove the “forever chemicals” from the tap water of hundreds of millions of Americans.
After a successful test from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station last December, the Army on Thursday officially named its long-range hypersonic weapon “Dark Eagle.” The system designed to “disintegrate adversary capabilities” was at it again Friday morning.
A fossil from one of the largest dinosaurs to live in North America was discovered in a national park in Texas. In March, students from Sul Ross State University went to Big Bend National Park for research and to collect a dinosaur bone belonging to Alamosaurus, according to an April 8 news release from the university. The geology students were accompanied by Jesse Kelsch, an assistant ...
The colossal squid, the world's largest squid species, was caught on video for the first time swimming in its natural habitat, according to a California ocean research organization.
You may have seen a meteorite before, even if you didn’t know it. Nearly 100,000 pounds of meteoritic matter enters Earth’s atmosphere every day, scientists estimate. The vast majority burns up as it hurtles through the sky, creating shooting stars.
Artificial intelligence chipmaker Nvidia said Monday that it will start producing AI supercomputers entirely in the United States, as the semiconductor sector braces for potential tariffs.
A Blue Origin rocket sent pop star Katy Perry and company founder Jeff Bezos’ fiancee Lauren Sánchez on a trip to the edge of space and back, the first time an all-female crew went to space in more than 60 years.
Wouldn’t it be great if the visitor sporting a finely fitted tuxedo in your living room was James Bond? No such luck – it’s an insect dressed in nature’s formalwear.
NASA’s science budget could be cut nearly in half under an early version of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to Congress, a move that would terminate billions of dollars’ worth of ongoing and future missions, according to two individuals with direct knowledge of the administration’s plan.
Often called the pink moon, April’s full moon will rise Saturday. The fourth full moon of the year, and the first of astronomical spring, it also happens to be a micromoon - the opposite of a supermoon. It will reach its peak at 8:22 p.m. Eastern time.
A Spokane-based nonprofit that works to protect the Spokane River has filed a lawsuit in federal court against Purina Mills, LLC, alleging that the company has failed to comply with requirements that they monitor discharges into the nearby waterway.
The four crew members of the private Fram2 mission returned to Earth on Friday after spending more than 3 1/2 days circling the planet on the first human spaceflight on a polar orbit. The SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience made a parachute-assisted splashdown off the California coast at 9:19 a.m. Pacific time. The mission launched from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on Monday night. Chinese-born ...
