Air Pollution From Power Plants Is Dropping—and We’re Breathing Easier as a Result
Wind, solar, and natural gas cut into coal’s dominance of the power supply.
All about freezing rain
The science of freezing rain. What causes the dangerous winter weather element that can paralyze cities.
ALMA telescope spies a supermassive black hole's spinning disk
For decades, astronomers have spoken of galaxies with supermassive black holes at their cores. Now they say they’ve clearly confirmed one such hole’s encircling, dusty, spinning disk of gas.
America’s Aversion to Facts Didn’t Begin With Donald Trump
Retracing the roots of political falsehood.
An Easier Way to Get to Universal Health Care by Fran Korten — YES! Magazine
Now is the time to push for better health care. Here are three modest, winnable first steps.
An orangutan will have a chance to find her mate — through Tinder – The Washington Post
The only hiccup so far: Upon being handed a tablet, 11-year-old Samboja immediately destroyed it.
Ancient Organics Discovered on Mars
Since arriving at Mars in 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover has drilled into rocks in search of organics – molecules containing carbon. Organics are the building blocks of all life on Earth, though they can also come from non-living sources.
AP fact check: Trump is living in an alternate reality
There you go. It’s not that the man tends to lie: it’s that the man tends to lie about everything, in every speech. He is incapable of either comprehending or conveying basic facts, and is unable to process explanations given to him about why his favorite claims are wrong.
Appeals Court Rejects Request to Immediately Restore Travel Ban
A federal appeals court early Sunday rejected a request by the Justice Department to immediately restore President Trump’s targeted travel ban, deepening a legal showdown over his authority to tighten the nation’s borders in the name of protecting Americans from terrorism.
Asteroid 2017 VR12 will sweep close tonight
2017 VR12 will pass 3.76 times the moon’s distance during the night of March 6-7. Here are some images and video of the asteroid, plus … how to watch online.
