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AUG 15, 2017Plants & Animals
It’s common for frogs, lizards, and some other vertebrates to hunt and devour spiders in the wild, but how often d ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 15, 2017Space & Astronomy
NASA is asking for your help in determining what we should say to the Voyager 1 spacecraft on the 40th anniversary of it ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 15, 2017Videos
A nonstop flight from San Francisco to New York takes about 5 hours and 30 minutes. The same flight going in the opposit ...AUG 14, 2017Earth & The Environment
The exodus has begun. The number of towns relocating to escape climate change-driven sea level rise has reached 13, and ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 14, 2017Space & Astronomy
With three additional astronauts/cosmonauts just recently joining the International Space Station crew, the space lab ne ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 14, 2017Plants & Animals
Camera-bearing nature explorers had a rare opportunity recently to film an elusive all-white moose in Värmland, loc ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 14, 2017Videos
Did you ever dream of being an astronaut as a kid? Perhaps you had visions of yourself in a rocket ship or walking on th ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 13, 2017Earth & The Environment
New Orleans has not had a good week with water. Flooding from a huge down pouring last Saturday left 9 inches of rain an ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 13, 2017Earth & The Environment
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have recently published a new study in the journal Environmental Re ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 12, 2017Earth & The Environment
If there was any doubt that humans are driving climate change, this new study published in Geophysical Research Letters ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 12, 2017Space & Astronomy
While NASA and other space scientists have known about the presence of cosmic rays for ages, that’s not to say tha ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 11, 2017Space & Astronomy
Compared to the innermost planets in the solar system, which are smaller and rockier, the outermost planets are larger a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 11, 2017Plants & Animals
From time to time, wild animals can turn abnormal colors. Albinism or leucism are leading causes of this phenomenon, but ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 10, 2017Earth & The Environment
For the first time since 1979, a total solar eclipse will cross North America for a matter of minutes, giving the celest ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 10, 2017Plants & Animals
When you think back to about 160 million years ago, you most likely imagine a world roamed by the dinosaurs and not much ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 10, 2017Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft launched from Earth’s surface 20 years ago, and it reached its destination at Satu ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 09, 2017Videos
The moon is such a familiar fixture in our skies that we often take it for granted. But there's more to the moon than me ...AUG 09, 2017Microbiology
Trying to get bacteria out of a kitchen sponge is apparently harder than we thought.Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 09, 2017Videos
Supply and demand are most often thought of in the study of markets and economics. The concept is relevant to the enviro ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAUG 09, 2017Space & Astronomy
Back in May, Rocket Lab hyped up the launch of their 3D-printed rocket dubbed the Electron Rocket, but things didn't ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 08, 2017Plants & Animals
According to researchers from Nova Southeastern University’s Guy Harvey Research Institute (GHRI), the shortfin ma ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 08, 2017Space & Astronomy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will soon replace the Hubble Space Telescope as the space agency’s ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 08, 2017Videos
Quantum physics is a field that can be incredibly complex. Tiny particles that are millions of miles apart in the univer ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimAUG 07, 2017Earth & The Environment
As a result of the imminent closing of the Navajo Generating Station coal power plant, which will see its last days at t ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 15, 2017
Plants & Animals
It’s common for frogs, lizards, and some other vertebrates to hunt and devour spiders in the wild, but how often d
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 15, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA is asking for your help in determining what we should say to the Voyager 1 spacecraft on the 40th anniversary of it
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 15, 2017
Videos
A nonstop flight from San Francisco to New York takes about 5 hours and 30 minutes. The same flight going in the opposit
...
AUG 14, 2017
Earth & The Environment
The exodus has begun. The number of towns relocating to escape climate change-driven sea level rise has reached 13, and
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 14, 2017
Space & Astronomy
With three additional astronauts/cosmonauts just recently joining the International Space Station crew, the space lab ne
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 14, 2017
Plants & Animals
Camera-bearing nature explorers had a rare opportunity recently to film an elusive all-white moose in Värmland, loc
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 14, 2017
Videos
Did you ever dream of being an astronaut as a kid? Perhaps you had visions of yourself in a rocket ship or walking on th
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 13, 2017
Earth & The Environment
New Orleans has not had a good week with water. Flooding from a huge down pouring last Saturday left 9 inches of rain an
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 13, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have recently published a new study in the journal Environmental Re
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 12, 2017
Earth & The Environment
If there was any doubt that humans are driving climate change, this new study published in Geophysical Research Letters
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 12, 2017
Space & Astronomy
While NASA and other space scientists have known about the presence of cosmic rays for ages, that’s not to say tha
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 11, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Compared to the innermost planets in the solar system, which are smaller and rockier, the outermost planets are larger a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 11, 2017
Plants & Animals
From time to time, wild animals can turn abnormal colors. Albinism or leucism are leading causes of this phenomenon, but
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 10, 2017
Earth & The Environment
For the first time since 1979, a total solar eclipse will cross North America for a matter of minutes, giving the celest
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 10, 2017
Plants & Animals
When you think back to about 160 million years ago, you most likely imagine a world roamed by the dinosaurs and not much
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 10, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft launched from Earth’s surface 20 years ago, and it reached its destination at Satu
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 09, 2017
Videos
The moon is such a familiar fixture in our skies that we often take it for granted. But there's more to the moon than me
...
AUG 09, 2017
Microbiology
Trying to get bacteria out of a kitchen sponge is apparently harder than we thought.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 09, 2017
Videos
Supply and demand are most often thought of in the study of markets and economics. The concept is relevant to the enviro
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
AUG 09, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Back in May, Rocket Lab hyped up the launch of their 3D-printed rocket dubbed the Electron Rocket, but things didn't
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 08, 2017
Plants & Animals
According to researchers from Nova Southeastern University’s Guy Harvey Research Institute (GHRI), the shortfin ma
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 08, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will soon replace the Hubble Space Telescope as the space agency’s
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 08, 2017
Videos
Quantum physics is a field that can be incredibly complex. Tiny particles that are millions of miles apart in the univer
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
AUG 07, 2017
Earth & The Environment
As a result of the imminent closing of the Navajo Generating Station coal power plant, which will see its last days at t
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan