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  • This illustration picture taken in Moscow on March 24, 2023, shows the Chinese social networking service TikTok's logo on a smartphone screen.
    Montana banned TikTok. Whatever comes next could affect the app's fate in the U.S.
    The ban will go into effect Jan. 1, 2024, but many questions, including how it will be carried out and whether it is even legal, are swirling.
  • Weekend Science Club: Chemistry of Cosmetics
    The Fleet Science Center offers Science Clubs for grades 5-8! Each session will be filled with new challenges, hands-on activities that can done using materials found in your home and has challenges for students of all ages. Through this program students will explore an array of fields including biology, chemistry, engineering, environmental science, physics, robotics and much more! This month, become a cosmetic chemist by performing scientific tests on product samples and mix up your own concoction to take home! Science Club for Girls is from 10 to 12 p.m. Our second Science Club is open for all Scientists from 1p.m. to 3p.m. Date: Jan. 9, 2022 Time: 10am and 1 pm Location: Fleet Science Center Cost: $13-$15 For more information on this event please visit HERE!
  • This artist's impression shows a hazy sub-Neptune-sized planet recently observed with the James Webb Space Telescope.
    The James Webb Space Telescope reveals a mysterious planet to be weirdly shiny
    Astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope at a common kind of planet that's bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. What they saw wasn't what they expected.
  • Piles of coal sit at a coal export terminal in the Curtis Bay neighborhood of Baltimore, Md. The area is one of the most polluted in the state and is one of hundreds of communities in the U.S. that grapple with disproportionate air pollution.
    A new satellite could help clean up the air in America's most polluted neighborhoods
    A new satellite will take continuous measurements of air pollution in the U.S. That has scientists, and residents, warily optimistic about undoing decades of injustice.
  • In London to address a gene-editing summit last week, Victoria Gray took a break to visit Sir John Soane's Museum. In 2019, Gray became the first patient to be treated for sickle cell disease using CRISPR, an experimental gene-editing technique. She was invited to talk about her experiences at the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing.
    Sickle cell patient's success with gene editing raises hopes and questions
    A Mississippi woman's life has been transformed by a treatment for sickle cell disease with the gene-editing technique CRISPR. All her symptoms from a disease once thought incurable have disappeared.
  • Some mountain trails in the city of Phoenix are open before sunrise and after sunset to encourage hikers to avoid the heat of the midday. A large body of scientific research shows that climate change is making heat waves more severe. Communicating about that climate connection while a heat wave is still underway can affect peoples' attitudes about climate change more broadly.
    Climate change is making the weather more severe. Why don't most forecasts mention it?
    Scientists and forecasters are trying to figure out how to talk about the connection between climate change and severe weather. It could have big impacts on how people think about global warming.
  • The science is in: Everyone recognizes and uses baby talk with infants
    The features of baby talk — softer tone, higher pitch, almost unintelligible vocabulary — are global. Researchers made over 1,500 recordings in urban, rural and Indigenous communities.
  • One of EC Comics covers with a titled designed to attract readers.
    Qiana Whitted to lecture 'Caption and Corpses: How to read an EC Comic'
    Professor and Eisner Award-winning author Qiana Whitted dissects captions and corpses.
  • Sunday Weekend Science Club
    The Fleet Science Center offers Science Clubs for grades 5-8! Investigate exciting science topics on the second weekend of each month. Each session will be filled with new challenges, hands-on activities that can be done using materials found in your home and has challenges for students of all ages. Through this program students will explore an array of fields including biology, chemistry, engineering, environmental science, physics, robotics and much more! Sunday Science Club is held the second Sunday of the month from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday classes are co-ed for grades 5 to 8. (Note: Saturday Science Club for Girls is held the second Saturday of the month from Noon to 2 p.m. for girls in grades 5 to 8. ) Register now at www.fleetscience.org/events/science-clubs
  • Gwyneth Paltrow and her attorney Steve Owens smile after the reading of the verdict in her lawsuit trial on Thursday in Park City, Utah.
    Gwyneth Paltrow wins her ski crash case — and $1 in damages
    The Utah jury quickly sided with the Oscar-winning actress -turned-lifestyle guru on Thursday, saying that she wasn't at fault and that she was the victim in the 2016 ski slope collision.
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