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  • Top Chinese Communist Party officials are meeting to choose their next leadership
    Top Chinese Communist Party officials are meeting in Beijing to choose their next leadership. What happens at the Party Congress remains shrouded in secrecy.
  • Tom Dee uses a shovel to dig out after an intense lake effect snowstorm impacted the area on Friday in Hamburg, N.Y.
    Western New York gets buried under 6 feet of snow in some areas
    The whopping 6 feet of snow was one of the top three heaviest snowfalls in recorded history for the Buffalo region.
  • Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich speaks at a news conference in Phoenix, on Jan. 7, 2020.
    Arizona's AG says dropping Title 42 would cause border 'chaos'
    Mark Brnovich led the fight to keep Title 42 in place. He explains to NPR why he and other state AGs want to keep it in effect until the surge of migrants at the southern border is under control.
  • An older adult receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a temporary vaccination site on Dec. 7 in Chongqing, China. Concerns about effectiveness and safety have led to uncertainty about the COVID vaccine, notably among older citizens, whose vaccination rate is relatively low.
    China's COVID vaccines: Do the jabs do the job?
    As case counts surge in China, rumors circulate about the effectiveness and safety of the made-in-China vaccines in use there. Here's what we know about CoronaVac and Sinopharm.
  • South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in August. He called on Western nations on Sunday to scrap travel restrictions placed on southern Africa to stem the spread of the omicron variant. "The prohibition of travel is not informed by science nor will it be effective in preventing the spread of this variant," he said.
    African leaders condemn travel restrictions as omicron variant spreads globally
    African nations are bristling at the restrictions imposed on them by rich countries — and say they are harmful to local economies and discriminate against countries in the region.
  • The <em>Rye Riptides</em> pictured on board the Corwith Cramer before launching in October 2020. Nearly 18 months later, the mini boat was retrieved from an uninhabited Norwegian island with its messages and gifts intact.
    A Norwegian student found a boat launched by New Hampshire middle-schoolers in 2020
    The Rye Riptides began as a science class project in New Hampshire. Some 462 days and 8,300 miles later, a sixth-grader retrieved it from an uninhabited Norwegian island, with its notes still intact.
  • A crowd gathers as Nobel Laureate John Mather and Northrop Grumman engineer Scott Willoughby speak in front a model of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope at South by Southwest on March 9, 2013.
    Who gets to use NASA's James Webb Space Telescope? Astronomers work to fight bias
    With the James Webb Space Telescope safely deployed, many scientists want to use it. To minimize the effect of unconscious biases, they go through a process developed for the Hubble Space Telescope.
  • 'Dune' On IMAX At The Heikoff Giant Dome Theatre
    From the Fleet Science Center: The Heikoff Giant Dome Theater is set to reopen on Friday, October 29, with a Next-Generation IMAX with Laser projection system. New immersive experiences will be available through IMAX movies, documentary films and cutting-edge educational programming. Dune on IMAX —The newest immersive experiences in the Heikoff Giant Dome Theater, as limited special engagements, are full-feature IMAX Movies. Audiences will be transported to planet Arrakis when they experience Dune in the dome. About the movie: Dune tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence, only those who can conquer their own fear will survive. Dune will be showing at the Heikoff Giant Dome Theatre from its reopening day, October 29 through November 4 on the following schedule: • Friday, October 29 | 4:15 p.m., 7:10 p.m. and 10 p.m. • Saturday, October 30 | 4:15 p.m., 7:10 p.m. and 10 p.m. • Sunday, October 31 | 4:15 p.m. and 7:10 p.m. • Monday, November 1 | Showtimes coming soon • Tuesday, November 2 | Showtimes coming soon • Wednesday, November 3 | Showtimes coming soon • Thursday, November 4 | Showtimes coming soon Get tickets here! Tickets for Dune are available for members to purchase October 15-20 before ticket sales open to the general public. For more information, please visit www.fleetscience.org/shows/dune or call (619) 238-1233.
  • Director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, Dr. Eric Topol speaks with KPBS Midday Edition about the COVID-19 vaccine and mandating masks again in San Diego County on August 25, 2021.
    Q&A: What to expect from latest 'Kraken' variant
    A new variant of concern is gaining traction across the country — and health officials are taking note of it's high transmissibility.
  • In this 2013 photo, National Weather Service Director Louis Uccellini (left) gives a tour of NOAA's Center for Weather and Climate Prediction to Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker (second from left), Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) (third from right), NOAA Acting Administrator Kathryn Sullivan (second from right), and Bryan Norcross (right) of the Weather Channel.
    Making weather forecasts is hard. Getting people to understand them is even harder
    After nearly a decade, the director of the National Weather Service has stepped down. Getting the public to understand weather is just as important as the science that delivers the forecasts, he says.
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