The Perseid meteor shower has begun. While the best viewing typically occurs after midnight when your location faces forward into the meteor stream, this year’s full moon is bright enough to interfere with visibility. To get around this, it's best to start watching at dusk, before the moon rises. The Perseids are tiny bits of ice from comet Swift Tuttle, disintegrating as they enter Earth's atmosphere. About one in 20 meteors, however, is a background meteor from the asteroid belt, which can survive their fiery descent. These "sturdy" meteors can even crash through roofs at speeds of up to 250 miles per hour. Despite the rarity of such impacts, insurance usually covers the damage.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has a message to Texas Republicans who are seeking to redraw Congressional district lines ahead of the 2026 mid-terms: bring it on. Hochul gathered with Texas House Democrats at the state capitol in Albany on Monday to say New York Democratic leaders are exploring their own redistricting options.

Meteorologist Garett Argianas provides the evening weather forecast for Monday, August 4th, 2025.

Contract negotiations have been an ongoing point of friction between the New York State Nurses Association and Albany Medical Center. The nurses’ union at Albany Medical Center reached a tentative four-year agreement that will benefit 1,600 nurses, according to an announcement Monday.

Burlington, Vermont, is now home to not one, but two championship-winning soccer teams. Thousands of Vermont Green FC fans were celebrating over the weekend as the semi-pro club captured its league’s national title.

Michigan Fest attendance was roughly twice what planners expected

We explore the quirky world of units—from the 1999 Mars Orbiter disaster caused by a metric vs. imperial mix-up to the colorful ways we measure everything from chili pepper heat to cotton and paper. You'll learn why U.S. territorial waters were once based on the range of a cannon shot, how Fahrenheit’s scale reflects geometric symmetry, and why a "barrel" of oil isn’t the same as a barrel of beer. With oddball units like skeins, quires, and cords still in use, maybe it’s finally time we all bolted over to metric!

The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education and research.It’s summertime and people are flocking to the beach.On today’s program we will talk about sharks! We will uncover why they are misunderstood and all the important information about the “perceived ultra-predator.”

We are joined by Dr. Joanne Favuzza of Capital District Colon & Rectal Surgery Associates, a practice of St. Peter’s Health Partners Medical Associates. Ray Graf hosts.

I grew up in the American West, and I still have some family out that way, which is how it happens that I found myself last week casting flies into a clear mountain stream – one of Ernest Hemingway’s favorites, in fact. I was hoping that I might fool a rainbow trout into believing that my little fly might be a delicious dinner.

More than 739 fires are burning in Canada, and smoke crossing the border has triggered air quality alerts in several U.S. states.

Robert Kaplan for three decades reported on foreign affairs for “The Atlantic,” he was a member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board, and the Chief of Naval Operations Executive panel. "Foreign Policy" twice named him ‘one of the world’s top 100 global thinkers.’ He is the author of 23 books. The latest is “Wasteland: A World in Permanent Crisis.”