SCIENTIST

Rubber is a critical raw material needed for car tires, personal protective equipment such as masks and gloves, and many more everyday products. Anytime you’re going anywhere, you’re using rubber. Now, supply chain disruptions have thrown the rubber industry into a tailspin. “We could be on the cusp of a rubber apocalypse,” Ohio State University professor Katrina Cornish told...

For years, Kim Cobb was the Indiana Jones of climate science. The Georgia Tech professor flew to the caves of Borneo to study ancient and current climate conditions. She jetted to a remote South Pacific island to see the effects of warming on coral. Add to that flights to Paris, Rome, Vancouver and elsewhere. All told, in the last three…

Russian scientists on Monday showed off a prehistoric puppy, believed to be 18,000 years old, found in permafrost in the country’s Far East. Discovered last year in a lump of frozen mud near the city of Yakutsk, the puppy is unusually well-preserved, with its hair, teeth, whiskers and eyelashes still intact. “This puppy has all its limbs, pelage – fur,...

From perms and relaxers to bleaching and styling with heat — women spend a lot of time, money and effort trying to find the perfect style. News4’s Tracee Wilkins sat down with a group of women to discuss why they chose to forego all of that and embrace their natural hair.

After decades of neglect, the Constitution Gardens pond on the National Mall will get a much-needed cleaning. News 4’s Cory Smith explains why scientists are turning to new technology to fix a problem in the water.

He was a scientist, a professor, a CEO and a family man. John Holaday accomplished a lot in life, but had a lot more he wanted to do. His dreams were cut short by a stray bullet when he was on a business trip. News4’s Darcy Spencer spoke to some of his friends and colleagues.

Life imitated art Tuesday when “The Big Bang Theory” — the American TV sitcom, not the scientific explanation for how the universe began — entered the annals of Nobel Prize history. The announcement of the winners of this year’s Nobel in physics began with a nod to an unlikely cultural reference: the opening lyrics to the show’s theme song. “The...

A Maryland man pleaded guilty to a violent attack near Logan Circle in D.C. Scott MacFarlane reports.

Federal prosecutors say three men beat a man, forced him to drink a bottle of liquor and locked him in a trunk, while driving the victim to multiple ATMs and making him withdraw cash.

Airbnb is offering a handful of people concerned about the environment a chance to participate in scientific research on how to help preserve it during an all-expense-paid trip to Antarctica. The Antarctic Sabbatical, as the travel company is dubbing it, will give five people the opportunity to study how widely microplastics have infiltrated the region. Over a month’s time in...

Haunting images of the Titanic shipwreck were released Wednesday following an expedition earlier this month − giving a never-before-seen high resolution look at the New York City-bound ship that sunk to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean 107 years ago.

A mother remembers her husband after her 17-year-old son fatally stabbed him while driving in Prince George’s County, Maryland. News4’s Derrick Ward has the story.

A 27-year-old man was charged with murder and rape Tuesday in the killing of an American scientist who disappeared on the Greek island of Crete and whose body was found in a tunnel formerly used as a storage site during World War II. Crete police said a Greek man from the island confessed to the “violent criminal act,” telling investigators...

George Mason University is naming a building in honor of the one of the NASA mathematicians whose story was told in the motion picture “Hidden Figures.”

Derrick Ward reports on a tour group of distant relatives of James Smithson, the man whose fortune helped create the Smithsonian Institution

Mount Everest and its surrounding peaks are increasingly polluted and warmer, and nearby glaciers are melting at an alarming rate that is likely to make it more dangerous for future climbers, an American scientist who spent weeks in the Everest region said Tuesday. Prof. John All of Western Washington University said after returning from the mountains that he and his...

Josh Willis is an accomplished NASA scientist, but his night job is using comedy to spark the conversation on climate change. Belen De Leon and Tommy Bravo report for NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on April 7, 2019.

Climate change can be a difficult topic to explain and understand, but one NASA scientist has found a funny way to talk about the issue.

U.S. government scientists bought hundreds of dead dogs and cats from “Asian meat markets” and conducted experiments that included feeding their remains to healthy lab cats for needless research, according to a disturbing watchdog report being released Tuesday. Other experiments at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s lab in Maryland included feeding dog remains to cats and injecting cat remains into...