3 min read NASA’s Career Technical Education Day Highlights Technical Careers Students participate in a hands-on robotics demonstration during Career Technical Education Day at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. NASA/Mark Knopp At NASA, remaining a global leader in exploration and innovation includes having a skilledand dedicated workforce. TechniciansContinue Reading
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 28th close approach to the Sun on June 8, again matching its record distance of 3.8 million miles from the solar surface. The flyby allowed the spacecraft to continue its measurements of the solar wind and solar activity at their source, while adding toContinue Reading
Geologists recently converged on a site near Barstow, California, to ground-truth a mineral discovery made on public land by a NASA JPL sensor flying aboard a plane overhead. NASA/JPL-Caltech Equipped with rock picks and hand lenses, a team of geoscientists deployed to the Mojave Desert recently to investigate a tantalizingContinue Reading
A 20-year record reveals an estuary tipping toward a saltier, more acidic state. These conditions threaten its hammerhead shark nursery and the aquifer that supplies Miami’s drinking water. By Kate Waxman In the shadow of Miami’s skyline, in water churned daily by boats and jet skis, juvenile great hammerhead sharks—aContinue Reading
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. Credit: NASA/Ron Beard NASA will host anContinue Reading
A potentially dangerous tapeworm linked to severe, cancer-like disease has now been found in the Pacific Northwest, marking its first detection in wild animals along the U.S. West Coast. Researchers discovered the parasite, Echinococcus multilocularis, in 37% of coyotes tested around Puget Sound—a surprisingly high rate for a region whereContinue Reading
More than 150,000 people have been affected by Tropical Cyclone Maila, the latest storm in the Pacific area, which continues to drive what the UN relief coordination office OCHA has described as “significant humanitarian needs” across the Solomon Islands.Continue Reading
In this rural Alabama community, some residents can’t flush their toilets. Developers want to build a state-of-the-art data center next door. By Lee Hedgepeth HAYNEVILLE, Ala.—When Alabamians marched from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 to demand voting rights for African Americans, Highway 80 became their path toward freedom. Continue Reading
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has announced that he will be speaking at CPAC GB in July – the pro-The Traitor conference brought to the UK by disgraced former prime minister Liz Truss. Reform sources speaking to The Guardian previously suggested that Farage would be “steering well clear” of theContinue Reading
Climate change-induced weather events are pushing orangutan populations to extinction, says a study…Continue Reading
Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf is set to speak tomorrow at the Heritage Foundation, the group behind the “extreme” ‘Project 2025’ playbook for Traitor 47’s second term. Yusuf, Reform’s home affairs spokesperson, is jetting to Washington, D.C., for an event with Nile Gardiner, director of the Heritage Foundation’s ‘Thatcher Center’. TheContinue Reading
Causing decades more of earth-warming carbon emissions, last year, the 65 largest banks heavily expanded their fossil fuel financing, committing $906 billion to industry companies — totalling $65 billion more than in 2024, according to a new report. Released today, the 2026 “Banking on Climate Chaos Report,” published annually byContinue Reading
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