Scientists are looking for volunteers to collect observational data about monarch butterflies over the next week. The data will help inform decisions about where to focus efforts to help the dwindling monarch population.
Volunteers from the Minnesota Astronomical Society have created a nearly life-size mock-up of the Apollo 11 lunar module and placed it in a field in Carver County. "We can't go to the moon and visit the historical site. So we kind of just brought the site down to Earth,” said one volunteer.
By breeding and migrating earlier, some birds are adapting to climate change. But it's probably not happening fast enough for some species to survive, according to new research.
If Chandrayaan-2 reaches the moon as planned, India would become the fourth country to achieve a soft landing on the lunar surface, after the United States, Russia and China.
Project Apollo spurred on a technological revolution — everything from advances in food packaging to computers. Fifty years later, we are still reaping the rewards.
Saturday is the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, when Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the on the Sea of Tranquility. One of the people who played a role in that mission is Minnesota resident Earle Kyle.
Greg Force was just a boy when his father, the director of a NASA tracking station in Guam, called home with an important mission for him: To help the crew of Apollo 11 return safely to Earth.
The muscles, heart, skeletal system all work a little different in endurance athletes. Host Dan Kraker explored the biology—and psychology—behind these intense competitors.
Saturday marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. "Eight Years to the Moon" tells the stories of some of the scientists and engineers who got the astronauts there and back safely.
This is part 2 of the documentary series "Washington Goes To The Moon." It is called "Trials and Fire" and it looks at the fire on board Apollo 1 that killed three astronauts and nearly derailed the space program.
Today we understand better than ever that the exploration of space is a risky business. The explosions of the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003 made that clear. But in 1967, most Americans saw space as nothing more than a big adventure. The danger seem beyond imagining.
In this program we go back to the disaster that almost derailed the Apollo Program and America’s drive to put a man on the moon; the tragedy of Apollo One. We look at how the fire revealed deep flaws in a NASA management structure that businesses and governments around the world viewed with envy and how NASA's attempts to cover-over those flaws fed into Congressional distrust that almost crushed the Space Program.
Minnesota's US Senator Walter Mondale played a key role in questioning if there was a NASA coverup of an investigative report on the Apollo One tragedy.
Documentary produced, written and narrated in 2006 by Richard Paul of WAMU, with funding from the National Science Foundation.
