The Franklin County Arts Council (FCAC) Writers’ Guild annual “Carolina Prize for Writing Contest” is accepting submissions until midnight on March 15, 2022. Writers of all ages are encouraged to quickly submit their poetry, prose, […]
NASA, NOAA, USGS, and other United States government agencies project that the rise in ocean height in the next 30 years could equal the total rise seen over the past 100 years Coastal flooding will […]
For a quarter of a century the annual Great Backyard Bird Count has been a bright spot for nature lovers. The 25th edition of the event is coming up February 18 through 21, 2022. Everyone is invited […]
NASA detected the shockwave from the underwater eruption high up in the atmosphere The powerful underwater volcanic eruption that blanketed the island nation of Tonga with ash and sent tsunami waves across the world also […]
On September 29, 2021, the US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to remove 22 animals and a plant from the endangered species list because of extinction. These 23 join the list of 650 US species […]
Shifts from feast to famine contributed to Adélie penguin population boom or bust over 6,000 years Preserved penguin poo may be the key to connecting past Antarctic Ocean conditions and penguin populations, shedding light on how the […]
An unprecedented heat wave that started around June 26, 2021 smashed numerous all-time temperature records in the Pacific Northwest and western Canada. NASA’s Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), aboard the Aqua satellite, captured the progression of […]
An inaccessible cave preserved clues to Jamaica’s climate past in the sedimentary layers of bat guano Deep in a Jamaican cave is a treasure trove of bat poop, deposited in sequential layers by generations of […]
New findings provide first evidence of amphibian declines affecting human health The global collapse of frogs and other amphibians, due to the amphibian chytrid fungus, exacerbated malaria outbreaks in Costa Rica and Panama during the […]
The observations from Earth orbit show high-altitude concentrations of the gas that are more than 10 times typical amounts. NASA’s Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), aboard the Aqua satellite, captured carbon monoxide plumes coming from California […]
After a brief period of moderate ice loss, the Greenland ice sheet melted in 2019 at the fastest rate ever measured. Greenland set a new record for ice loss in 2019, shedding the most mass […]
Two NASA astronauts splashed down safely in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday for the first time in a commercially built and operated American crew spacecraft, returning from the International Space Station to complete a […]
By Kay Whatley, Editor Imperial Centre for the Arts and Sciences is offering free livestreams each Friday evening, starting at 6pm, through Summer and Fall. No tickets needed, just watch live via YouTube. The 2020 […]
Used for communicating with distant spacecraft, a massive radio antenna is being retrofitted to prepare it for a busy future of solar system exploration The Deep Space Network is NASA’s interplanetary switchboard that enables constant […]
Crayola believes every child should be able to creatively and accurately color themselves into the world they see around them. On May 21, 2020, UN World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, Crayola […]
The Smithsonian Science Education Center, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) — a partnership of 140 national academies of science, engineering and medicine — has developed COVID-19! How […]
On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, SAS and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) join forces to transform crowdsourced knowledge into actionable intelligence to help protect the planet SAS is committed […]
NASA invites video gamers and citizen scientists to embark on virtual ocean research expeditions to help map coral reefs around the world in an effort to better understand these threatened ecosystems. During the past […]
A new story book that aims to help children understand and come to terms with COVID-19 has been produced by a collaboration of more than 50 organizations working in the humanitarian sector, including the World […]
A major ocean current in the Arctic is faster and more turbulent as a result of rapid sea ice melt, a new study from NASA shows. The current is part of a delicate Arctic […]
After setting a record for the longest single spaceflight in history by a woman, NASA astronaut Christina Koch returned to Earth Thursday, along with Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and […]
The US Coast Guard is responding to a 6.5 magnitude earthquake and seismic activity registered Tuesday, January 7, 2020, off the south and southwest coasts of Puerto Rico, which is a territory of the […]
On December 10, 2019, Honda Aircraft Company announced that it has begun deliveries of the HondaJet Elite to China. The first HondaJet Elite was delivered by Honda Aircraft Company at its world headquarters in Greensboro, […]
The Greenland Ice Sheet is rapidly melting, having lost 3.8 trillion tons of ice between 1992 and 2018, a new study from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) finds. The study combined 26 independent […]
Earth’s magnetic song recorded for the first time during a solar storm Data from the European Space Agency (ESA) Cluster mission has provided a recording of the eerie ‘song’ that Earth sings when it is […]
Researchers have discovered a new geophysical phenomenon where a hurricane or other strong storm can produce vibrations in the nearby ocean floor as strong as a magnitude 3.5 earthquake. Said Wenyuan Fan, an assistant professor […]
NASA astronaut Nick Hague returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Thursday, alongside Soyuz commander Alexey Ovchinin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and visiting astronaut Hazzaa Ali Almansoori from the United Arab […]
Ball Aerospace has shipped and delivered the large camera lens assembly to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, which will be incorporated into the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), a ground telescope that will sit […]
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