The Hill, The Moon, and Saturn
Last Sunday when the Moon was young its sunlit crescent hung low near the western horizon at sunset. […]
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Hurricane Harvey Passed Over, but These Fish Kept Making Babies ...
Underwater audio recordings rescued from Hurricane Harvey showed that the urge to spawn was more powerful than a […]
Ancient Cycle of Italy’s Volcanic Giant Seems to End in ...
Campi Flegrei has been curiously eruption-free since 1538. New research unspooled 60,000 years of its history with an […]
Ice Age Asteroid Crater Discovered Beneath Greenland Glacier by NICHOLAS ...
It is the first impact crater discovered under one of Earth’s ice sheets, according to the scientists who […]
The Cave Nebula in Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Sulfur
What’s inside this cosmic cave? A stellar nursery 10 light-years deep. The featured skyscape is dominated by dusty […]
Male Insect Fertility Plummets After Heat Waves by KAREN WEINTRAUB
Researchers say that temperature’s effects on sperm production could be one factor behind the decline in the world’s […]
Why Komodo Dragons Haven’t Conquered the World by VERONIQUE GREENWOOD
The razor-toothed predators are fierce, but scientists found that they’re real homebodies. Published: November 13, 2018 at 01:00AM […]
Rotating Asteroid Bennu from OSIRIS REx
Could this close-by asteroid ever hit the Earth? Eventually yes — but probably not for a very long […]
A ‘Time Capsule’ for Scientists, Courtesy of Peter the Great ...
A Russian zoological museum filled with centuries-old specimens finds renewed relevance in the age of genetics. Published: November […]
‘Touch Not the Cat’ by C. CLAIBORNE RAY
The Scottish wildcat, the last native cat in the United Kingdom, is endangered; fewer than 100 purebred specimens […]