As the calendar page turns from May to June, we look forward to the end of the school year and the impending arrival of summer. Of course, this time of year, it is also time to start looking toward the warming Atlantic for visitors from the tropics. Hurricane season officially runs June...
Modern ability to forecast the weather came about during the Cold War. Rockets and satellites sent back pictures of the planet from space. These images revealed that the Earth had “bands and whirls and vortices that stretched thousands of miles,”wrote Hannah Fry in a 2019 New Yorkerarticle....
If you remember from history class,a massive space rockcrashed off the Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago and caused catastrophic damage which lead to the global extinction of dinosaurs. The goal is to prevent such catastrophic events from ever happening again and NASA's DART will play a hu...