To Bridge The Digital Divide, Biden Administration Launches Vaccine Hotline It's part of the administration's push to get 70% of adults in the U.S. vaccinated with at least one dose by July 4. Allison Aubrey
What Goes Up Must Come Down — Including A Giant Chinese Rocket Plunging Toward Earth U.S. Space Command says the exact entry point into Earth's atmosphere cannot be pinpointed until hours before its reentry, which is expected sometime around Saturday. Vanessa Romo
Space junk sleuths hunting for rocket fireball debris in NW Stargazers across the Pacific Northwest were treated to quite a light show in late March when the errant reentry of a spent rocket sent fireballs... Tom Banse
May 5th | What a decade’s worth of whale poop tells researchers about their health Find out how whale feces is saving the endangered killer whale. Swedish Hospital launches a Black Birth Empowerment Initiative, and the Tulalip Tribes are relocating ‘nuisance’ beavers to help protect the ecosystem. Bill Radke
A Fancy Bottle Of Wine That Went To Space Can Be Yours For Perhaps A Million Dollars The bottle of Pétrus 2000, a luxury wine that would normally cost about $6,500, spent 14 months on the International Space Station. Now, via Christie's, it can be yours. Becky Sullivan
EPA Moves To Cut A Group Of Powerful Greenhouse Gases The EPA plans to phase out hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, which are used in refrigerators and air conditioners. When HFCs are released into the atmosphere, they are extremely good at trapping heat. Rebecca Hersher
What Is An 'Internal Wave'? It Might Explain The Loss Of An Indonesian Submarine No cause has been established for the sinking earlier this month of the KRI Nanggala with 53 people aboard, but officials have suggested that it may have been due to an undersea wave. Scott Neuman
Sonia Altizer: What Can We Learn From The Migration Of Monarch Butterflies? Monarch butterflies fly the longest two-way migration of any insect species. Ecologist Sonia Altizer shares how these intrepid butterflies make the journey — and how it's being threatened.
Billions Of Cicadas Will Be Emerging Soon Soon, billions of periodical cicadas will emerge from the earth in parts of the East Coast and Midwest — a spectacle that only happens every 17 years. Jacob Fenston
Man's Ancient Friend: 6,000-Year-Old Dog Remains Found On Arabian Peninsula As archeologists in Saudi Arabia excavated an ancient tomb last year, they were surprised to find what's believed to be the earliest example of dog domestication in the region. Anna Sirianni