China congratulates Biden on winning presidential election
China has officially congratulated President-elect Joe Biden on winning the 2020 election. The acknowledgment comes as CBS News projects Mr. Biden will win Arizona and election officials contradict President Trump’s claims of voter fraud.
New York is building a wall to hold back the ocean
Climate change is leading to increasingly violent storms. Can seawalls hold back floods?
U.S. Carried Out Cyberattacks on Iran
United States Cyber Command on Thursday conducted online attacks against an Iranian intelligence group that American officials believe helped plan the attacks against oil tankers in recent weeks, according to people briefed on the operation. The intrusion occurred the same day President Trump called off a…
Astronauts left poop on the moon
Human feces can be disgusting, but it’s also teeming with life. Around 50 percent of its mass is made up of bacteria, representing some of the 1,000-plus species of microbes that live in our guts. In a piece of poop lives a whole wondrous ecosystem.
Trump makes immigration his top priority, vowing mass deportations
President Trump said U.S. immigration agents are planning to make mass arrests and deportations days after striking a deal with Mexico to curb the flow of undocumented migrants. The Washington Post’s Nick Miroff explains what’s at stake.
El Chapo’s drug tunnels, explained
Throughout his career as a drug trafficker, tunnels have been the common theme in El Chapo’s story. When he gained control of a major drug trafficking corridor in the late 1980s, Joaquin Guzman Loera — then known as “el Rapido”— was the first to create…
NASA finds strange alien planet hiding outside our solar system
Nasa has found a strange alien planet sitting outside of our solar system. The world is cool and small: two characteristics that make it a very strange thing indeed for scientists to find. The little planet known as HD 21749b is the third planet to…
How America became a Superpower
With over 800 military bases around the globe, the US is easily the most powerful nation on earth. But it wasn’t always this way. The US once played an insignificant role in global affairs. In this 8-minute video, you can see the transformation.
Supervolcano is brewing under Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire
Something unexpected has been gradually making itself known to geologists in the United States. A huge mass of molten rock is creeping upwards beneath the nation’s north eastern states. “The upwelling we detected is like a hot-air balloon, and we infer that something is rising…
2020 Census Will Ask White People More About Their Ethnicities
The race question is going to get complicated for many people who identify as white on the U.S. census. Since 1960, when U.S. residents were first allowed to self-report their race on the census, just answering “White” has been enough to complete the race question….
