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On the internet, everyone knows 'you're a racist': Twitter account IDs marchers

On the internet, everyone knows 'you're a racist': Twitter account IDs marchers

They weren't hiding their faces as they waved swastikas and shouted white supremacist and Nazi slogans. Now internet sleuths are identifying (and misidentifying) the Charlottesville marchers.

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Forget tough passwords: New guidelines make it simple

Forget tough passwords: New guidelines make it simple

We've been told to create passwords that are complicated, to change them regularly and to use different ones for each app or site. But the latest advice is to keep them simple, long and memorable.
by Samantha Raphelson

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Humans vs. beavers: The battle of 1993

Humans vs. beavers: The battle of 1993

Culverts were created to help move water underneath roads, and turned out to be a dam-building beaver's paradise. In 1993, reporter Leif Enger reported on a victory for mankind in the beaver wars.
by Jim Bickal and Sara Porter

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Why future earthlings won't see total solar eclipses

Why future earthlings won't see total solar eclipses

The Earth won't enjoy total solar eclipses forever because the moon is moving farther away, so it looks smaller and smaller over time.

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More than spectacle: Eclipses create science and so can you

More than spectacle: Eclipses create science and so can you

Scientists will focus on the sun, but they will also examine what happens to Earth's weather, to space weather, and to animals and plants on Earth as the moon totally blocks out the sun. The moon's shadow will sweep along a narrow path, from Oregon to South Carolina.
by The Associated Press

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White supremacist site banned by GoDaddy after Virginia rally

White supremacist site banned by GoDaddy after Virginia rally

The Daily Stormer published a story mocking protester Heather Heyer and making light of the events in Virginia, prompting calls for GoDaddy, which hosts the site, to take the site down.

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Parenting style matters when it comes to raising a guide dog

Parenting style matters when it comes to raising a guide dog

New research suggests that when puppies have more attentive, active mothers, they're more likely to fail guide-dog training.
by Rebecca Hersher

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Scientists prepare for 'the most beautiful thing you can see in the sky'

Scientists prepare for 'the most beautiful thing you can see in the sky'

You'd think that after hundreds of years of watching total solar eclipses, scientists would know all they'd need to about that particular phenomenon. You'd be wrong.

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Go see it, eclipse chasers urge. 'Your first time is always special'

Go see it, eclipse chasers urge. 'Your first time is always special'

A small number of passionate "shadow-lovers" roam the world to be at exactly the right place when the moon blots out the sun. One man has seen 33 -- and calls each "one of the top events of my life."

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