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Cassini's Saturn mission goes out in a blaze of glory

Cassini's Saturn mission goes out in a blaze of glory

The NASA probe that's spent the past 13 years making countless discoveries about the ringed planet and its moons was taken out of orbit and sent plunging into Saturn's atmosphere.

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Saturn's strangest sights, as captured by a doomed spacecraft

Saturn's strangest sights, as captured by a doomed spacecraft

NASA's Cassini spacecraft will crash into Saturn on Friday, but we'll always have the shots it took of icy volcanoes, hexagonal storms, ethane lakes and ripples in Saturn's rings.
by Adam Cole and Ryan Kellman

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Tesla remotely expanded car batteries near Irma's path, and questions linger

Tesla remotely expanded car batteries near Irma's path, and questions linger

It's not the first time Tesla has made over-the-air changes to its cars. The boost gave customers' cars an extra 30 to 40 miles -- but the batteries will lose their extra juice this weekend.

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Getting up to speed on the Equifax data breach scandal

Getting up to speed on the Equifax data breach scandal

Equifax has been scrambling to explain itself since disclosing last week that it exposed vital data about 143 million Americans. Here's the latest on what you need to know about the breach.
by The Associated Press

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Ancestry's Catherine Ball on your broader human family

Ancestry's Catherine Ball on your broader human family

An exploration of what makes up our human identity, and how our DNA can illuminate our genetic relationships with people all over the world and throughout history.
by MPR News Staff

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The Army, the inventor and the surprising uses of a Batman machine

The Army, the inventor and the surprising uses of a Batman machine

The Army wanted a new, small device that could pull a person rapidly up a rope. The invention they eventually got has uses far beyond the military.
by Joe Palca

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Trump's nominee to be USDA's chief scientist is not a scientist

Trump's nominee to be USDA's chief scientist is not a scientist

Sam Clovis has a doctorate in public administration, is skeptical that humans have a role in climate change and pushed theories suggesting former President Barack Obama was born in Kenya.
by Amy Mayer

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Climate Cast: Harvey's climate change connections

Climate Cast: Harvey's climate change connections

Paul Huttner talks to climate and hurricane expert Bob Henson of Weather Underground about Hurricane Harvey, before being downgraded to a tropical storm.
by Paul Huttner

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U.S. clears first 'living drug' for tough childhood leukemia

The treatment is the first type of gene therapy to hit the U.S. market -- and one in a powerful but expensive wave of custom-made "living drugs" being tested.
by The Associated Press

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What science 'gone wrong' can teach us

What science 'gone wrong' can teach us

Pandora's Lab stresses that for science to work, it needs to base claims on data, studies need to be replicable, and scientists must be more attached to science than to their own ideas, says Alva Noe.
by Alva Noë

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