Apr 05 The total solar eclipse is the best time to study this part of the sun. Here’s why By Bella Isaacs-Thomas On April 8, the moon’s shadow will fall across North America in a path of totality that starts in Mexico and ends in eastern Canada, giving solar researchers a unique opportunity to observe the sun's outer atmosphere. Continue reading
Apr 05 Watch 7:21 What you need to know ahead of next week’s total solar eclipse By Miles O'Brien, Kate Tobin, Will Toubman We’re less than three days away from the total solar eclipse that will be seen in the U.S., Mexico and Canada. Monday’s eclipse will cut across 13 states with more than 30 million people living in the path of totality… Continue watching
Apr 05 How to watch the 2024 total solar eclipse By Joshua Barajas, Bella Isaacs-Thomas, Dan Cooney, Adam Kemp This year’s total solar eclipse is expected to be a bigger, longer spectacle than the one that passed over the United States in 2017. Continue reading
Apr 05 6 inmates reach settlement with New York state allowing them to watch total solar eclipse By Associated Press Lawyers for the six men incarcerated at the Woodbourne Correctional Facility in upstate New York said Thursday that they’ve reached a settlement with the state that will allow the men to view the solar eclipse “in accordance with their sincerely… Continue reading
Apr 04 EPA announces $20 billion in green bank grants for clean energy projects By Alexa St. John, Associated Press Clean energy projects like residential heat pumps, electric vehicle charging stations and community cooling centers aim to combat climate change. Continue reading
Apr 03 1 in 3 Americans say they’ve reduced how much plastic they’re using By Bella Isaacs-Thomas Women, people in households making more than $50,000 annually, and college graduates were more likely to report a decrease in how often they used single-use plastics in the last five years, according to a new PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll. Continue reading
Apr 02 New York inmates are suing to watch the solar eclipse after state orders prisons locked down By Philip Marcelo, Associated Press The suit filed Friday in federal court in upstate New York argues that the April 8 eclipse is an event significant to many religions and that the lockdown violates their constitutional rights to practice their faiths. Continue reading
Apr 01 Trillions of underground wonders to emerge in ‘cicada-geddon’, largest in centuries By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press These cicadas are nature's kings of the calendar, crawling out from underground every 13 or 17 years and singing as loud as jet engines. Continue reading
Mar 31 20 years ago, people thought Google’s Gmail launch was an April Fool’s Day joke By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks every April Fool's Day. As a result, the release of Gmail with what sounded like a preposterous amount of storage capacity 20 years ago was believed to be one of… Continue reading
Mar 29 OpenAI reveals Voice Engine, but won’t yet release it publicly due to safety concerns By Associated Press The company unveiled its new Voice Engine technology Friday, just over a week after filing a trademark application. The company claims that it can recreate a person's voice with just 15 seconds of recording of that person talking. Continue reading