SciFri Extra: A Relatively Important Eclipse
This week marks the 100th anniversary of an eclipse that forever changed physics and our understanding of the universe. In May 1919, scientists set out for Sobral, Brazil, and Príncipe, an island off ...
28 Touko 201914min
Bees! May 24, 2019, Part 2
For the hobby beekeeper, there’s much to consider when homing your first domestic honey bee colonies—what kind of hive to get, where to put them, where to get your bees, and how to help them survive t...
24 Touko 201947min
Ebola Outbreak, Climate Play, Navajo Energy. May 24, 2019, Part 1
What would it take to power a subsea factory of the future? Plus, other stories from this week in science news. Then, as the last coal-fired power plant plans to shut down at the end of the year, the ...
24 Touko 201947min
New Horizons Discovery, Science Fair Finalists, Screams. May 17, 2019, Part 2
The most happening New Year’s Party of 2019 wasn’t at Times Square or Paris—it was in the small town of Laurel, Maryland, halfway between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., at the Johns Hopkins Universit...
17 Touko 201947min
Degrees Of Change: Sea Level Rise, Coal-Use Decline. May 17, 2019, Part 1
As the frequency of tropical storms and droughts increase and sea levels rise with climate change, forested wetlands along the Atlantic coast are slowly filling with dead and dying trees. The accelera...
17 Touko 201947min
Biodiversity Report And The Science Of Parenting. May 10, 2019, Part 2
According to a new UN report on global biodiversity, as many as one million species—both plants and animals—are now at risk of extinction, according to a new UN report on global biodiversity. That num...
10 Touko 201946min
Superconductivity Search, Ride-Share Congestion, Lions Vs. Porcupines. May 10, 2019, Part 1
Six decades ago, a group of physicists came up with a theory that described electrons at a low temperature that could attract a second electron. If the electrons were in the right configuration, they ...
10 Touko 201947min
Neuroscientists Peer Into The Mind's Eye, Alexander von Humboldt. May 3, 2019, Part 2
It sounds like a sci-fi plot: Hook a real brain up to artificial intelligence, and let the two talk to each other. That’s the design of a new study in the journal Cell, in which artificial intelligenc...
3 Touko 201947min
