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Nine Year Old Boy Graduates High School and Builds Robots to Celebrate
Most nine-year-olds are still working through elementary school. David Balogun was already thinking about black holes and wondering what might exist inside them. He did not want to spend another nine years waiting to study the subjects that fascinated him. So, while still enjoying Legos and pillow fights at home, David set himself an extraordinary…
Trump Urges Oil Executives to Find a Way to Lower Gas Prices
President Donald Trump has taken his push for lower gasoline prices directly to the U.S. oil industry. At a White House meeting with refiners and fuel distributors, Trump pressed executives to find ways to increase refining capacity and bring relief to drivers facing prices above $4 per gallon. The political goal is straightforward, but the…
The Richest 10 Percent Are Causing Trillions in Environmental Damage
The people causing the most environmental damage may not be limited to billionaires with private jets and superyachts. A new study suggests the world’s top 10% of consumers are responsible for trillions of dollars in environmental damage every year. The more surprising detail is who qualifies for that group. According to reporting on the research,…
Honolulu Student Finds Fungi That Could Break Down Plastic and Sunscreen
What happens after pollution is pulled out of the ocean but remains trapped inside a filter? That question sent a Honolulu high school student from a homemade coconut-fiber experiment into a university laboratory, where researchers found fungi capable of breaking down plastic and chemical sunscreen. Vera Wang’s project produced another surprise along the way. Some…
NOAA Warns Super El Niño Could Bring Extreme Weather Across America
A powerful shift in the Pacific Ocean could shape America’s weather in ways forecasters have rarely seen before. NOAA now believes there is a strong possibility that the developing El Niño could reach an intensity beyond anything in the modern record. That does not mean every forecast impact will happen exactly as predicted. But the…
Himalayan Glacier Collapse Unleashes Deadly Floods Across Nepal
High in the Himalayas, a huge section of glacier broke away and crashed down a mountainside. What followed was a devastating chain reaction of ice, rock, mud and water that tore through valleys along the Nepal-China border, killing hundreds and leaving many more missing. Scientists are still investigating exactly why the glacier collapsed. But satellite…
Scientists Say They’ve Finally Found Where the Universe Hid Its Missing Matter
For decades, astronomers faced one of the strangest accounting problems in the universe. Scientists had a strong idea of how much ordinary matter should exist after the Big Bang, yet when they counted the stars, planets, galaxies and visible clouds of gas around them, a huge portion appeared to be missing. Ordinary matter makes up…
New SNAP Rules Cut Soda Purchases Across Multiple States
The fight over what Americans can buy with food stamps has produced its first major set of numbers, and they are giving Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again movement something to celebrate. A new study found that soda purchases fell by about 12% among SNAP recipients after several states restricted the use of…
A High School Student Made A Remarkable Discovery At NASA
Most teenagers would probably spend their first few days at NASA trying to understand where everything is and how not to look completely lost. Wolf Cukier had a very different introduction to the space agency. Just three days into his internship, the 17-year-old high school student noticed an unusual signal buried in telescope data. What…
Scientists Get An Extraordinary Look Inside A Young Star System
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured an extraordinary view of HH 30, a young stellar system buried inside a dark cloud of gas and dust. The image looks almost like a cosmic painting, but the strange structures reveal a process that could eventually produce entirely new worlds. The telescope did not photograph the literal…