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This photo, provided by China National Space Administration via Xinhua News Agency, is the first image of the moon's far side ever taken from the surface. A Chinese spacecraft on Thursday made the first-ever landing on the far side of the moon, state media said. (Imaginechina via AP)
NPR
International
Space

China becomes first country to land on far side of moon, state media announces

The six-wheeled rover landed in the southern section of the Von Kármán crater, near the moon's south pole, Chinese media reported.

7 years ago

This composite image made available by NASA shows the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule indicated by the crosshairs at center, with stars surrounding it on Aug. 16, 2018, made by the New Horizons spacecraft. The brightness of the stars was subtracted from the final image using a separate photo from September 2017, before the object itself could be detected. (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute via AP)
Space
Technology

NASA spacecraft opens new year 4 billion miles from Earth

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has survived the most distant exploration of another world, a tiny, icy object 4 billion miles away that looks to be shaped like a peanut.

7 years ago

An artist's impression of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft encountering Ultima Thule, a Kuiper Belt object that orbits 1 billion miles (1.6 billion kilometers) beyond Pluto, on Jan. 1, 2019. (JPL/NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Steve Gribben)
NPR
Space

Way beyond Pluto, an icy world is ready for its close-up

About a billion miles beyond Pluto, a spacecraft is closing in on an icy minor planet — a mysterious little place that's only about 20 miles across.

7 years ago

Natural gas wells in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Efficiencies, pipelines help propel Pa. gas production in 2018

Natural gas production in Pennsylvania is expected to reach a new high by year’s end: 6 trillion cubic feet.

7 years ago

Cambria County residents Janice Eastbourn-Bloom and Rick Bloom
Energy
Infrastructure
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Solar co-ops grow in Western Pa.

While the bulk of solar energy in Pennsylvania exists in the eastern half of the state, co-ops are popping up across western part of the commonwealth to help people go solar.

7 years ago

Skytalk
Space

Going, Going, Gone

Enjoy them while you can, because according to a new analysis of data from the Keck 10 meter telescope at Mauna Kea, Saturn’s rings ...

Air Date: December 26, 2018

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(J. David Ake/AP Photo)
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Climate change in Pennsylvania: A look back at 2018 and ahead at 2019

Here’s a look at how Pennsylvania has been working to reduce emissions in 2018 and a preview of what may be in store for next year.

7 years ago

The logo for Facebook appears on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York. (Richard Drew/AP)
Media
Technology

Did 2018 usher in a creeping tech dystopia?

The list is long: High-tech tools for immigration crackdowns. Fears of smartphone addiction. YouTube algorithms that steer youths into extremism. Gene-edited babies.

7 years ago

A jet lands at London Gatwick Airport on Friday. The airport had been closed for over a day after a drone repeatedly flew nearby. (Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Military
Technology

How to stop a drone? There’s no good answer

Shoot it down. Jam it. Use a missile or maybe a net. There's no shortage of ideas about how to stop a drone, but as the past few days show, the reality is far more difficult.

7 years ago

Before light reaches these rods and cones in the retina, it passes through some specialized cells that send signals to brain areas that affect whether you feel happy or sad. (Omikron /Getty Images/Science Source)
NPR
Behavioral Health
Biology

Scientists find a brain circuit that could explain seasonal depression

Just in time for the winter solstice, scientists may have figured out how short days can lead to dark moods.

7 years ago

Bill Green (left) and Brendan Happe are amateur astronomers who invite people on the streets of Philadelphia to gaze at the moon through a telescope. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community Events
Outdoors
Philadelphia

Philly’s Moon Men bring their telescopes to South Street

Brothers Bill and Brandon Green invite the public on Philadelphia's South Street to see the moon up-close.

7 years ago

Listen 3:32
The Google AI lab in Princeton. (Princeton University, Office of Communications, Denise Applewhite)
Higher Education
New Jersey
Technology

Google to open artificial intelligence lab in Princeton, N.J.

The company will focus on recruiting students, graduates, and others in the area to work on artificial intelligence, which powers features such as 'smart reply' in Gmail.

7 years ago

Tieyuan Zhu, (left), and Eugene Morgan of Pennsylvania State University are part of a research team studying carbon storage. They are pictured here with a model that helps explain how carbon dioxide moves through rock underground.
(Amy Sisk/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Energy
Environment
Higher Education
StateImpact Pennsylvania

At Penn State, researchers push for answers on carbon capture: Will it stay where we put it?

Technology is seen as key to lessening the effects of climate change.

7 years ago

Every summer, downy mildew spreads from Florida northward, adapting to nearly every defense pickle growers have in their arsenals and destroying their crops. (Bernd Settnik/Picture Alliance via Getty Images)
NPR
Environment
Food & Drink

Scientists are fighting for the stricken pickle against this tricky disease

With failed harvests, fewer growers are taking a chance on cucumbers.

7 years ago

Floods in Ellicott City, Maryland, pushed cars into a pile last May. This year has been a year of record rainfall for cities throughout the mid-Atlantic and Carolinas. (The Washington Post/Getty Images)
NPR
Environment
National

2018 is now the wettest year on record for Washington and other cities

Dozens of other locations have reported record-breaking precipitation, including the cities of Baltimore, Philadelphia and Wilmington, North Carolina.

7 years ago

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