Earth’s earliest animals may have held evolution back because they reproduced asexually, creating low-competition communities that changed very little over time. When environmental pressures pushed them toward sexual reproduction, biodiversity exploded and evolution accelerated dramatically., Read MoreContinue Reading
Facing fires and floods, homeowners in Lincoln County, New Mexico, are considering buyouts designed to move them out of harm’s way. The post Managed retreat in Ruidoso could mean more public lands appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
When Elon Musk kicked off Tesla Inc.’s quarterly earnings call in July 2025, robotaxis were top of mind.Continue Reading
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Crews at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, install a flight reactor engineering development unit into Test Stand 400 in preparation for cold-flow testing. The test campaign began in July and ran through September and marked the first testing on a flight reactor engineering development unit since theContinue Reading
Credit: NASA NASA has selected multiple small businesses for the Western Regional Multiple Award Construction Contract, which supports a broad range of facility enhancement, modernization, and sustainment work at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, and other federal agencies inContinue Reading
A new paper found that the remnants of “foundation species” strongly influenced the fate of survivors. By Nicholas Kusnetz Death casts a shadow over life, not only for people but also other animals, plants and entire ecosystems.Continue Reading
More than 5 percent of the species is estimated to have been lost when a climate-fueled storm unleashed torrents of water, mud and debris.Continue Reading
What to know about the local backlash against the booming data center industry, the era of me-first energy and more climate news.Continue Reading
Climate researchers at Northern Illinois University found that golf ball-size hail or larger will become much more common in the United States.Continue Reading
By Erica McNamee of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD As a kid, you were always taught to hold tight to balloons—tie them around your wrist, even, to keep them close. This week, a group of a dozen undergraduate students participating in NASA’s 2026 Student Airborne Research Program (SARP), unlearned old balloon-wrangling habits—and let go. Their purpose: to collect data aboutContinue Reading
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Katalyst Space’s LINK robotic servicing satellite awaits encapsulation inside a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL on June 8, 2026, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The rocket will carry LINK to space for an attempted orbital boost of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. NASA/Ron Beard Engineers completed installation of KatalystContinue Reading