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Goodbye Cassini

September 20, 2017 btwuser 0

After 20 years in space, and 13 years orbiting Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft’s mission ended dramatically last Friday. Here, btw takes a look at why […]

Eclipse Mania Strikes the U.S.!

August 17, 2017 btwuser 0

In case you haven’t heard, the United States will experience a total solar eclipse on Monday, August 21. How much of it you will see […]

Close-up view of a blooming Mojave Yucca (Yucca schidigera), Joshua Tree National Park California, USA. Credit: David H. Carriere/Stockbyte/MediaBakery

California Leads the Way in the Battle Against Climate Change

August 2, 2017 btwuser 0

Back in June, Election Central brought you the story of how California governor Jerry Brown was leading a group of governors and mayors from across […]

Space shuttle Atlantis (foreground) sits on Launch Pad A and Endeavour on Launch Pad B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. At the left of each shuttle are the open rotating service structures with the payload changeout rooms revealed. The rotating service structures provide protection for weather and access to the shuttle. For the first time since July 2001; two shuttles are on the launch pads at the same time. Endeavour will stand by at pad B in the unlikely event that a rescue mission is necessary during Atlantis' upcoming STS-125 mission to repair NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Troy Cryder/NASA. MHE World

The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Space Coast

June 1, 2016 btwuser 0

In 2011, NASA retired its 30-year-old shuttle program when Atlantis returned from its mission, touching down at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. […]

Artificially Coloured MRI Scan Of Human Brain. Daisy-Daisy/Alamy. MHE World

Your Brain in a Digital World

May 12, 2016 btwuser 0

Last week, btw brought you a story about what happens to the brain when you do more than one thing at a time. This week […]

America gains a famous citizen / photo by Al. Aumuller. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-05649. MHE World.

Gravitational Wave Discovery: 100 Years in the Making

February 17, 2016 btwuser 0

Perhaps you’ve heard news about the discovery of “gravitational waves?” About how a team of scientists discovered the sound of two black holes colliding a billion […]

The NASA family lost seven of its own on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986, when a booster engine failed, causing the Shuttle Challenger to break apart just 73 seconds after launch. In this photo from Jan. 9, 1986, the Challenger crew takes a break during countdown training at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. © NASA. MHE World.

Remembering the Space Shuttle Challenger

February 3, 2016 btwuser 0

On January 28, 1986, NASA’s Space Shuttle Challenger exploded, killing all seven who were on-board, including the first civilian into space. Amid the wave of […]

Low-angle view of the United Nations building complex, New York City, USA, with unrecognizable people milling around. Purestock/SuperStock. MHE World.

UN Climate Change Conference

December 3, 2015 btwuser 0

Over the years, btw has brought you stories about Climate Control—what it is, what it does, and measures proposed to slow its effect. Last week, […]

Magaliesburg, South Africa, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2015. photographer/AP Images. Photographer: Themba Hadebe. Magaliesburg, South Africa

Meet Homo Naledi

September 21, 2015 btwuser 0

Earlier this month, paleoanthropologists in South Africa announced that they have discovered a new species of hominid. Hominid is the name of the biological family […]

The first steam engine designed and built in the United States, by Oliver Evans, of Philadelphia, Pa., 1801 / Drawing by Thos. Arnold McKibbin. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division [LC-USZC4-2758]

Patents: For the Benefit of Society

July 30, 2014 btwuser 0

You have probably seen a copyright symbol– © –printed inside of your favorite books or on the backs of CDs. But what do you know […]