It's the End of the World as We Know It
Harold Camping is ever-present on the cable channel of the Alameda Bible Fellowship, a low-key man proselytizing from a well-thumbed Bible. But look what he's started. The third top hashtag on Twitter...
View ArticleMassachusetts Tornado Track Seen from Space
The Berkshire mountains of Massachusetts are a very pretty part of the world. They are not rugged, but meteorologists say tornadoes tend to break up when they pass over hilly terrain, undone by...
View ArticleSpace Shuttle Program Now to End With Predawn Landing
When I was down in Florida to cover the launch of the shuttle Endeavour in May, I ran into an old NASA friend who joked about the agency's knack for timing. The schedule for this month's final flight...
View ArticleApple Beats the Street
There are companies that make a lot of money. Then there’s Apple, which reported after the stock market closed today that it earned $7.79 per share in the quarter just ended, beating analysts’...
View ArticlePluto Has New Moon
Just seeing it was an accomplishment. The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a tiny new moon, somewhere between 8 and 21 miles in diameter, in orbit around Pluto. Pluto was already known to have three...
View ArticleApple iPhone 5: First Look?
It happens every time: When Apple drops hints it has a new product about to hit the market -- in this case the iPhone 5 -- the blogosphere lights up. The new phone, if you believe what they're...
View ArticleHurricane Season: New NOAA Outlook
ABC News Arlette Saenz reports: In its new outlook for the 2011 hurricane season, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center predicted an above-normal hurricane season with 7 to 10 hurricanes, and 3 to 5 of...
View ArticleDiscovery and Endeavour, One Last Time
One last look: the space shuttles Endeavour and Discovery being moved late yesterday from one building to another at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. They already have been stripped of their...
View ArticlePerseid Meteor Shower, Seen From Space Station
Well, at least somebody had perfect weather for the Perseid meteor shower over the weekend. Astronaut Ron Garan, orbiting 200 miles above the Earth's surface on the International Space Station, had the...
View ArticleNew Moon: 200 Million Years Younger Than Thought
"The moon's a harsh mistress," goes the song. It does not surrender its secrets easily. Scientists have thought it was 4.6 billion years old -- but now Lars Borg of Lawrence Livermore National Lab,...
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