Second Lady Karen Pence and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue recently teamed up to install a honeybee hive on the grounds of the Vice President’s residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC. This will serve as a “great example” of what people can do to help “reverse the decline” in managed honeybee colonies around the country, the secretary said.

Uranus and Neptune have never got much attention from us – we’ve only passed each once and never hung around. But that could change. A NASA group has now outlined possible missions to make it to one of these outer worlds to gather data on their composition. This should teach us about them and similar planets in other solar systems.

It’s been nearly 12 years or 4,253 days since the last major hurricane made landfall in the U.S., which is the longest such period on record.

The Northwest Passage is blocked by very thick ice in the Beaufort Sea.

DMI Modelled ice thickness

While many have believed that an ill-placed meteor wiped out the dinosaurs, new research shows that may not have been the full story behind it.

It could have been the sun — or at least the sun’s brother.

Researchers at Tulane University have developed a new map that details the varying rates at which land is sinking along the Louisiana coast.

The initial phases of animal evolution proceeded faster than hitherto supposed: New analyses suggest that the first animal phyla emerged in rapid succession – prior to the global Ice Age that set in around 700 million years ago.

Heavy sea ice off Newfoundland and southern Labrador has been an issue for months: it brought record-breaking numbers of polar bear visitors onshore in early March and April and since then has hampered the efforts of fisherman to get out to sea.

Facebook has started deploying its artificial intelligence capabilities to help combat terrorists’ use of its service.

For the first time, China has successfully sent pairs of entangled photons from a satellite in orbit to three ground stations in the country each separated by more than 1,200-km, in a major breakthrough that opens up prospects for practical quantum communications.

NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explore telescope has offered astronomers a detailed view of the star factory inside the Orion Nebula, one of the most famous and oft-photographed star-birthing clouds in the cosmos.

A team of researchers at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea has developed a type of adhesive patch that works under a variety of conditions including underwater. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes how they studied octopus suction cups to design a better patch for human applications.

Chinese scientists claim they will attempt to grow potatoes on the moon in 2018, according to state-run media.

Achieving a perfect score in the 1980s video game Ms. Pac-Man is something to brag about, which is probably what Microsoft’s artificial intelligence is doing right now, assuming it actually knows how to brag.

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet, a landbound mass of ice larger than Mexico, experienced substantial surface melt through the austral summer of 2015-2016 during one of the largest El Niño events of the past 50 years, according to scientists who had been conducting the first comprehensive atmospheric measurements in the region since the 1960s.

Writing at Climate Etc., esteemed climate scientist Dr. Judith Curry has urged greater attention to the uncertainties of scientific research into global warming (aka climate change). ‘The current focus on CO2 emissions reductions risks having a massively expensive global solution that is more damaging to societies than the problem of climate change,’ she says.