Top news for December 21, 2008

Carbon Dioxide Levels Have Passed a New Milestone

‘Aging in Place, or Stuck in Place?’

How Tetris Inspired an MIT Breakthrough in Nuclear Safety Technology

Record-Breaking Black Hole Discovered Just 2000 Light-Years From Earth

Climate Crisis To Cost World $59 Trillion in Worst-Case Scenario, Study Finds

Plugging the Leak on Laundry Pollution – An average three-pound load of shirts, pants and socks sheds hundreds of thousands of microfibers into the sewer system, where they slip undetected past water chemical treatment plants and enter river and ocean ecosystems

Unlocking the Secrets of Space Chemistry With Cold Coulomb Crystals

Artemis II Spacecraft Testing Begins in NASA’s Upgraded Altitude Chamber

Here’s a Clever Way to Uncover America’s Voting Deserts

'Devil Comet' 12P/Pons-Brooks reaches peak brightness tonight. Here's how to see it