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Flight 370 will make us rethink airline safety, says expert

An expert in atmospheric dynamics and aviation meteorology comments on the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

Matt Daniel

March 24, 2014

Ocean wave currents in the search for Malaysia Air Flight 370

We've all seen satellite images of possible floating debris from the missing jet. Why can't we just fly to that spot and find it? The answer is ocean currents.

Matt Daniel

March 23, 2014

Video: Are we loving manatees to death?

Manatee season at the Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge in Florida is November 1 to March 31. You can almost imagine the manatees breathing a sigh of relief.

Deborah Byrd

March 21, 2014

Watch ‘father of inflation’ learn of gravitational waves discovery

Physicist Andrei Dmitriyevich Linde is one of the main authors of inflationary universe theory. Watch his emotions as he learns his theory was proven true this week.

Eleanor Imster

March 19, 2014

Overgrazing by deer is changing the face of U.S. forests

Deer's natural predators, wolves, have been exterminated. Today, overgrazing by deer in hugely multiplied numbers is affecting forests.

Editors of EarthSky

March 18, 2014

Video: Bill Nye tells how the Science Guy came to be

Bill Nye uses the unlikely pairing of Steve Martin and Carl Sagan as role models to become "the Science Guy."

Eleanor Imster

March 14, 2014

Do microbes spoil food to avoid sharing?

Don't enjoy your fruit with a coating of slime and fur? Fine then, that just leaves more for the microbes.

Alex Reshanov

March 13, 2014

Cosmos is coming Sunday night

If you watch this three-minute long trailer for the new Cosmos without wanting to tune in to the whole series ... you are made of sterner stuff than me.

Deborah Byrd

March 8, 2014