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Caroline “Taz Gallardo dodges a leg kick to strike Camila Rivarola in their recent Combate Global women's bout in Miami.  (Scott Hirano/Combate Global)
May 12, 2022 1982kontepeters

Combate Global Set To Be Most-Watched MMA Brand In North America

People walk down the street in Branson, Missouri. Researchers have discovered that people's childhood experiences of navigating their environments, whether urban or rural, determine their sense of direction in later years. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
April 1, 2022 1982kontepeters

Sense Of Direction Depends On Where You Grew Up

Premium and diesel fuel prices exceed $9 per gallon at Furnace Creek, California. (Twitter/Peter Tellone)
March 29, 2022 1982kontepeters

Why Does This Gas Station Have The Most Expensive Fuel In The US?

Air Force Maj. Ernest J. Fawbush (left) and Capt. Robert C Miller issued the first tornado forecast in 1948. Forecasters at the time relied mainly on hand-drawn weather maps, data from weather balloons and a radar system that was originally intended for use on B-29 bombers. (United States Air Force)
March 25, 2022 1982kontepeters

The First Scientists Who Dared To Forecast ‘An Act Of God’

Coastal Redwood trees stand at Muir Woods National Monument on August 20, 2013, in Mill Valley, California. A recent study found that redwoods have two distinct types of leaves — one for absorbing water and one for photosynthesis. The placement of the leaf types changes across their range depending on how wet or dry their conditions are. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
March 18, 2022 1982kontepeters

Redwoods Have Specialized Leaves That Allow Adaptation To Both Wet And Drier Climates

Lake Powell, a critical source of hydropower and water for the West, is continuing to dry up. In this file photo, the tall bleached bathtub ring is visible on the rocky banks of Lake Powell on June 24, 2021 in Lake Powell, Utah.  (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
March 11, 2022 1982kontepeters

‘Unprecedented’ Water Levels Threatening Hydropower Generation In The West

The SS Bloody Marsh, which completed construction in 1943, was recently found when the NOAA was mapping the ocean floor off the coast of South Carolina. (NOAA Ocean Exploration)
March 3, 2022 1982kontepeters

Researchers Make Startling Find While Mapping Ocean Floor

The San Andreas Fault, visible as the line between grey metamorphic quartz monzonite and brown sedimentary sandstone and siltstone, is seen at Tejon Pass on June 30, 2006, near Gorman, California. The rift of tan and brown layers indicates the site of the surface rupture of a magnitude-8.0 earthquake in 1857 that was the largest quake in California?s recorded history. (David McNew/Getty Images)
March 2, 2022 1982kontepeters

Mounting Pressure: Slow-Moving Section Of San Andreas Fault Remains A Danger

Thousands of documents relating to seized ships and legal proceedings were found in the British National Archives. They were bound with ribbons of different colors, signifying, for example, different courts and court personnel. (National Archives, U.K.) 
February 23, 2022 1982kontepeters

Records Of Seized Ships, Now Online, Reveal Details Of Wars And Enslaved Africans

In this image showing the intensity of oxygen-deficient zones, copper colors represent the lowest oxygen concentrations in the eastern Pacific Ocean, while deep teal indicates regions without low oxygen. (Jarek Kwiecinsky, Andrew Babbin, MIT)
January 5, 2022 1982kontepeters

Scientists Produce 3D Maps Of Oxygen-Deprived ‘Dead Zones’ In Pacific Ocean

“Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis” reveals how Jewish soldiers were commanded to gather intelligence from the Germans at a secret camp in the Washington, D.C. area. (Netflix)
December 23, 2021 1982kontepeters

Oscar Shortlist For Horror Show Of How Jewish Refugees Had To Keep Nazi Defectors ‘Happy’ In US

Award-winning reporter Ian Urbina (right) left the New York Times in 2019 to found The Outlaw Ocean Project. (Fabio Nascimento)
December 22, 2021 1982kontepeters

Outlaw Ocean Journalist Hits Back Against A YouTube Attack

The founders of Antidote Health believe their digital health maintenance organization will help cure the healthcare access crisis for U.S. citizens earning too much to be eligible for public insurance and too little for adequate private coverage. (Karolina Grabowska/Pexels)
December 16, 2021 1982kontepeters

Antidote Health Aims To Cure US Care-Access Crisis

Thinning treatments reduce the risk of wildfire and provide ecological benefits to forests but also generate wood residues that are burnt or left to decay, like this burn pile of underbrush, releasing carbon dioxide. New analysis by the University of California, Berkeley, shows how giving incentives to businesses to convert residues into biofuels and engineered lumber could fund forest thinning treatments while preventing the release of carbon. (Bodie Cabiyo, Courtesy of UC Berkeley)
December 16, 2021 1982kontepeters

Market For Small Trees Could Curb Big Wildfires

Researchers used DNA capture-enrichment technology developed at McMaster University to isolate and rebuild the fluctuating animal and plant communities during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition of 11,000 years ago in North America. (Julius Cstonyi)
December 10, 2021 1982kontepeters

Mammoth Discovery: Giant Tuskers And Wild Horses Roaming North America Died Out Only 5,000 Years Ago

December 7, 2021 1982kontepeters

BlackFacts Minute: Dec. 7, 1941, Hero ‘Dorie’ Miller Defends US Ships During Pearl Harbor Attack

Wild pigs are running rampant in Southern states, such as Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Their variegated color reflects admixtures of domestic breeds. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
December 7, 2021 1982kontepeters

Snout Of Line: Trackers On Wild Pigs Show That Weather May Help Predict Their Movements

Researchers strung raw chicken from tree branches to act as bait for vulture bees in Costa Rica. These stingless bees feed on carrion, while most bee species are vegetarian. (Quinn McFrederick/UCR)
November 24, 2021 1982kontepeters

VIDEO: What The Cluck? ‘Vulture Bees’ Eat Chicken In Costa Rica 

The Patton Meadow Fire burns an area of the Fremont-Winema National Forest on August 15, 2021, near Lakeview, Oregon. New research shows that wildfires are accelerating the rate at which some tree species are shifting their ranges toward cooler, wetter conditions. (Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images)
November 21, 2021 1982kontepeters

Forests Are On The Move To Higher, Wetter Habitats

Researchers have proposed a cost-effective macrogrid that would allow the sharing of power, including renewable wind and solar, across the United States during peak demand times. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
November 20, 2021 1982kontepeters

Proposed Macrogrid Would Improve Reliability And Resilience Of US Electric Power, Study Says

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