Harry Jones

A controversial amendment pushed by Jeff Bezos’ space firm Blue Origin passed the Senate Wednesday night, inching closer to becoming law. Crammed inside a mammoth science and technology bill designed primarily to counter competition from…

A California man was rescued after getting stuck for two days inside a piece of vineyard machinery.Sonoma County Sheriff’s deputies discovered the man wedged inside after getting a complaint about a car parked on private property.When they…

In "Atchafalaya," John McPhee's essay in the 1989 book The Control of Nature, the author chronicles efforts by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to prevent the Atchafalaya River from changing the course of the Mississippi River where they…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Colorado has its first gray wolf pups in 80 years, state wildlife officials said Wednesday.…

Australian researchers have developed a microscope that can image tiny biological structures that were previously not visible in what has been described as a significant step for quantum technology.It is believed to be the first time that…

A rare annular eclipse will appear as a burning ring of fire over a swath of northern Canada early Thursday, while other parts of the country will see it as the moon covering a significant slice of the sun. The spectacular event…

A change of scene is good for the soul – and after a winter of soul-sapping lockdowns, we could all use a bit of a tonic. So it’s lucky for me that the scene up ahead is joyful to behold. I’m looking down the length of a wide and empty,…

An international group of collaborators, including scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and The University of New Mexico, have discovered a new, temperate sub-Neptune sized exoplanet with a 24-day orbital period orbiting a…

Scheme of the experimental setup. An electric equivalent circuit is displayed in the upper right corner. The charge is “split” between the capacity with the top and the…

Scientists are concerned that measures to combat Covid-19 have weakened the immune systems of young children who have not been able to build up resistance to common bugs, leaving them vulnerable when mask-wearing and social distancing…