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MAR 14, 2018Space & Astronomy
After nine long years of exoplanetary research, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope is beginning to run out of fuel. The ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 14, 2018Earth & The Environment
And you thought that you were done with report cards once you finished high school…. Well, a new study from Willi ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAR 14, 2018Technology
Knowing when and how much to water a plant year-round can be challenging.Written By: Julia TraversMAR 13, 2018Plants & Animals
During the late-Jurassic period, a winged dinosaur known to the scientific community as Archaeopteryx walked the Earth. ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 13, 2018Earth & The Environment
It’s no news that microplastics are invading our oceans and through biomagnification, our food chains. But a recen ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAR 12, 2018Space & Astronomy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is slated to become the most powerful space telescope ever built, but it’s ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 12, 2018Plants & Animals
Poaching is a widespread issue affecting elephants in Central Africa, but a new paper published in the journal Conservat ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 12, 2018Earth & The Environment
A new study published in New Phytologist suggests that trees are dying fast than before, up to two times faster! T ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAR 12, 2018Plants & Animals
Despite just how many people walk the Earth today, some parts of the world are still thought to be ‘untouched&rsqu ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 11, 2018Videos
Conspiracy theories are all around us, and some people often wonder why we come up with them. Jan-Williem van Prooijen i ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 09, 2018Earth & The Environment
Tongass National Forest is the last remaining National Forest that still allows clear-cut old-growth logging. And that h ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAR 08, 2018Microbiology
While unclear, it has been thought that photosynthetic organisms evolved around 2 billion years ago. New research has su ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 07, 2018Space & Astronomy
When NASA’s Juno probe successfully inserted itself into orbit around Jupiter on Independence Day in 2016, no one ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 07, 2018Earth & The Environment
So, there’s good news and bad news. Which do you want first? Okay, here’s the good news: the UK has managed ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAR 06, 2018Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is getting old, but astronomers continue using it to make breakthrough discoveries a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 06, 2018Plants & Animals
Just three Northern white rhinos walk the Earth today; two of those are young females, while the third is an elderly mal ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 06, 2018Earth & The Environment
You may have heard about carbon finance schemes. They’re systems set up to incentivize keeping trees in the ground ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAR 05, 2018Plants & Animals
Fossils are ancient relics of our early world, and they can reveal a lot about life before people. Fortunately, scientis ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 04, 2018Space & Astronomy
Astronomers search far and wide for answers to the countless questions we have about our universe. In some cases, astron ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 04, 2018Earth & The Environment
You might think that we pretty much have all the penguin colonies in the world accounted for already. After all, most co ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAR 04, 2018Earth & The Environment
A new study that looked at fossilized plant leaf waxes may provide new insight into historical climate patterns which we ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAR 04, 2018Videos
To better understand how plasma breaks from the sun, scientists create a laboratory that demonstrates "a mini solar stor ...Written By: Nouran AminMAR 01, 2018Technology
Smith works with a team of volunteers in the development of a lighter, cheaper and durable suit that he hopes will be co ...Written By: Julia Travers
MAR 14, 2018
Space & Astronomy
After nine long years of exoplanetary research, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope is beginning to run out of fuel. The
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 14, 2018
Earth & The Environment
And you thought that you were done with report cards once you finished high school…. Well, a new study from Willi
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 14, 2018
Technology
Knowing when and how much to water a plant year-round can be challenging.
Written By:
Julia Travers
MAR 13, 2018
Plants & Animals
During the late-Jurassic period, a winged dinosaur known to the scientific community as Archaeopteryx walked the Earth.
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 13, 2018
Earth & The Environment
It’s no news that microplastics are invading our oceans and through biomagnification, our food chains. But a recen
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 12, 2018
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is slated to become the most powerful space telescope ever built, but it’s
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 12, 2018
Plants & Animals
Poaching is a widespread issue affecting elephants in Central Africa, but a new paper published in the journal Conservat
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 12, 2018
Earth & The Environment
A new study published in New Phytologist suggests that trees are dying fast than before, up to two times faster! T
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 12, 2018
Plants & Animals
Despite just how many people walk the Earth today, some parts of the world are still thought to be ‘untouched&rsqu
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 11, 2018
Videos
Conspiracy theories are all around us, and some people often wonder why we come up with them. Jan-Williem van Prooijen i
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 09, 2018
Earth & The Environment
Tongass National Forest is the last remaining National Forest that still allows clear-cut old-growth logging. And that h
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 08, 2018
Microbiology
While unclear, it has been thought that photosynthetic organisms evolved around 2 billion years ago. New research has su
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 07, 2018
Space & Astronomy
When NASA’s Juno probe successfully inserted itself into orbit around Jupiter on Independence Day in 2016, no one
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 07, 2018
Earth & The Environment
So, there’s good news and bad news. Which do you want first? Okay, here’s the good news: the UK has managed
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 06, 2018
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is getting old, but astronomers continue using it to make breakthrough discoveries a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 06, 2018
Plants & Animals
Just three Northern white rhinos walk the Earth today; two of those are young females, while the third is an elderly mal
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 06, 2018
Earth & The Environment
You may have heard about carbon finance schemes. They’re systems set up to incentivize keeping trees in the ground
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 05, 2018
Plants & Animals
Fossils are ancient relics of our early world, and they can reveal a lot about life before people. Fortunately, scientis
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 04, 2018
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers search far and wide for answers to the countless questions we have about our universe. In some cases, astron
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 04, 2018
Earth & The Environment
You might think that we pretty much have all the penguin colonies in the world accounted for already. After all, most co
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 04, 2018
Earth & The Environment
A new study that looked at fossilized plant leaf waxes may provide new insight into historical climate patterns which we
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAR 04, 2018
Videos
To better understand how plasma breaks from the sun, scientists create a laboratory that demonstrates "a mini solar stor
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
MAR 01, 2018
Technology
Smith works with a team of volunteers in the development of a lighter, cheaper and durable suit that he hopes will be co
...
Written By:
Julia Travers