4+ day, 23+ hour ago  (342+ words) Rangers made a chalk pictogram of the Earth's solar system for the April 24 Mt. Jefferson stargazing event. Never short on creativity and celestial inspiration, stargazers focused on their inner child and their creativity as they made moon silhouettes on construction…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago  (331+ words) Ashe Post & Times ASHE COUNTY " Both the local and state of North Carolina burn ban for Ashe County and 80 other counties has been lifted as of Sunday, according to Ashe County Emergency Management and the NC Forest Service. Burn permits…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (638+ words) A "green" alternative to plastic packaging has been developed from a form of cannabis. Scientists developed the non-toxic plastic alternative derived from the hemp plant - a non-psychoactive type of weed. Researchers are looking for alternative forms of packaging as the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (189+ words) Ashe Post & Times An awesome aurora captured from space. (Jessica Meir via SWNS via SWNS) Expedition 74 flight engineer and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir shot the vibrant phenomenon from 250 miles up " along with a vivid Milky Way and Elon Musk's Starlink…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (642+ words) Colombia is hosting the first global conference on the transition away from fossil fuels. More than 50 nations gathered in Colombia launched the first global conference on phasing out fossil fuels Tuesday, warning that the worldwide energy shock ignited by the…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (673+ words) North American beaver in the Northwest Territories. (Anglia Ruskin University via SWNS) Beavers have left a tell-tale trail as they move into the Arctic, reveals new research. Scientists have been able to track the mammals' colonization of territory within the…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (868+ words) An operator from Ukraine's Skyfall tests a P1-Sun model A naval Magura drone, credited with successful attacks on Russian ships in the Black Sea, is shown off in Kyiv Co-founder of France's Delair, Bastian Mancini, shows off some hardware Skyfall…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (903+ words) credit card, spending money, consumerism I'm a deals writer, but I love my tech, too. So when I read about AI companies hoarding computer memory and storage, I started worrying about my gadget habit " and asking questions. I talked to…...

3+ week, 1+ hour ago  (317+ words) Black bear sniffing through a dumpster. Wild bear looking into a car window. A black bear eating from a bird feeder. Bear Wise is an Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies program that provides consistent, science-based information for coexisting with black…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (670+ words) A landlord fascinated by the space and the sky set up an observatory in the back garden of his pub. Alan Boddington, 67, first took an interest in space when looking at the moon with his uncle using a brass telescope…...