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OCT 10, 2017Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are closely monitoring an asteroid dubbed 2012 TC4, which will make an uncomfortably-close encounter with th ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 09, 2017Space & Astronomy
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 10 individual low-Earth-orbiting communication satellites for Iridium launched from Ca ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 09, 2017Plants & Animals
Almost like a predetermined set of blueprints, mother nature hosts a plethora of plant types around the globe. Many plan ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 08, 2017Earth & The Environment
Here’s a surprise you would have never seen coming: after a 26 year-long study, scientists have determined that so ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanOCT 08, 2017Videos
KIC 8462852, also known as Tabby's Star, resides more than 1,200 light years away from Earth and baffles scientists ever ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 07, 2017Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash, and Michael Young have been awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Med ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 06, 2017Space & Astronomy
One of the vital reasons we have observatories floating around in space, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, is that gro ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 06, 2017Plants & Animals
Employees of a Maruti Suzuki factory in Delhi, India were in for quite a shocker after a wild leopard somehow meandered ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 05, 2017Earth & The Environment
Forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon are not new. Fire Season usually lasts from July to November, but recent burning th ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanOCT 05, 2017Plants & Animals
In the 1980’s, researchers from West Africa discovered a distinctive songbird dubbed the Liberian Greenbul (Phylla ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 04, 2017Plants & Animals
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) doesn’t consider the giant panda an endangered speci ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 03, 2017Earth & The Environment
It’s been a geology-heavy few days for Yosemite national park this past week, with two separate rock falls crashin ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanOCT 03, 2017Plants & Animals
Ichthyosaurus Communis is one of the first-known species of ichthyosaur to exist on Earth, and some U.K.-based paleontol ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 02, 2017Earth & The Environment
We know that fracking isn’t great for the environment. Of course, the geologic impacts of literally drilling into ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanOCT 02, 2017Videos
The International Space Station is an incredible place to take photographs, as many former astronauts have shown. Now, E ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 02, 2017Space & Astronomy
China’s space program is evolving quickly. The country recently announced its plans to send 13 different payloads ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 02, 2017Plants & Animals
West Africa is home to a large serpent that many thought was just the invasive forest cobra (Naja melanoleuca), but new ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 01, 2017Videos
Bacteria were first reported on September 17, 1683, by Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, who had observed single- ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 01, 2017Earth & The Environment
Until recently, the katabatic winds that blow from the interior of Antarctica to its coastal regions were an enigma to s ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanSEP 30, 2017Space & Astronomy
One of the trickiest parts of sending astronauts to the Moon or Mars in the long-term is figuring out where they'll ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 29, 2017Videos
SpaceX quickly became popular because of their Falcon 9 rocket, which routinely blasts off from the launch pad to send e ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 29, 2017Space & Astronomy
Anyone who’s paid any attention to SpaceX over the years knows that Elon Musk, the company’s CEO, has a slig ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 28, 2017Space & Astronomy
Gravitational waves are an intriguing phenomenon that occur when two massive celestial objects, such as black holes, col ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 28, 2017Chemistry & Physics
Credit: forplayday/thinkstock From the discoveries of Earth-like exoplanets to finding water in every corner of our sola ...Written By: Daniel Duan
OCT 10, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are closely monitoring an asteroid dubbed 2012 TC4, which will make an uncomfortably-close encounter with th
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 09, 2017
Space & Astronomy
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 10 individual low-Earth-orbiting communication satellites for Iridium launched from Ca
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 09, 2017
Plants & Animals
Almost like a predetermined set of blueprints, mother nature hosts a plethora of plant types around the globe. Many plan
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 08, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Here’s a surprise you would have never seen coming: after a 26 year-long study, scientists have determined that so
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 08, 2017
Videos
KIC 8462852, also known as Tabby's Star, resides more than 1,200 light years away from Earth and baffles scientists ever
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 07, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash, and Michael Young have been awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Med
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 06, 2017
Space & Astronomy
One of the vital reasons we have observatories floating around in space, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, is that gro
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 06, 2017
Plants & Animals
Employees of a Maruti Suzuki factory in Delhi, India were in for quite a shocker after a wild leopard somehow meandered
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 05, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon are not new. Fire Season usually lasts from July to November, but recent burning th
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 05, 2017
Plants & Animals
In the 1980’s, researchers from West Africa discovered a distinctive songbird dubbed the Liberian Greenbul (Phylla
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 04, 2017
Plants & Animals
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) doesn’t consider the giant panda an endangered speci
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 03, 2017
Earth & The Environment
It’s been a geology-heavy few days for Yosemite national park this past week, with two separate rock falls crashin
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 03, 2017
Plants & Animals
Ichthyosaurus Communis is one of the first-known species of ichthyosaur to exist on Earth, and some U.K.-based paleontol
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 02, 2017
Earth & The Environment
We know that fracking isn’t great for the environment. Of course, the geologic impacts of literally drilling into
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 02, 2017
Videos
The International Space Station is an incredible place to take photographs, as many former astronauts have shown. Now, E
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 02, 2017
Space & Astronomy
China’s space program is evolving quickly. The country recently announced its plans to send 13 different payloads
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 02, 2017
Plants & Animals
West Africa is home to a large serpent that many thought was just the invasive forest cobra (Naja melanoleuca), but new
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 01, 2017
Videos
Bacteria were first reported on September 17, 1683, by Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, who had observed single-
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 01, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Until recently, the katabatic winds that blow from the interior of Antarctica to its coastal regions were an enigma to s
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
SEP 30, 2017
Space & Astronomy
One of the trickiest parts of sending astronauts to the Moon or Mars in the long-term is figuring out where they'll
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 29, 2017
Videos
SpaceX quickly became popular because of their Falcon 9 rocket, which routinely blasts off from the launch pad to send e
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 29, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Anyone who’s paid any attention to SpaceX over the years knows that Elon Musk, the company’s CEO, has a slig
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 28, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Gravitational waves are an intriguing phenomenon that occur when two massive celestial objects, such as black holes, col
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 28, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
Credit: forplayday/thinkstock From the discoveries of Earth-like exoplanets to finding water in every corner of our sola
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan