Europe’s Triumphs and Troubles Are Written in Swiss Ice by ...
Pollen frozen in ice in the Alps traces Europe’s calamities, since the time Macbeth ruled Scotland. Published: September […]
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Cosmic Collision Forges Galactic Ring
How could a galaxy become shaped like a ring? The rim of the blue galaxy pictured on the […]
A Solar Filament Erupts
What’s happened to our Sun? Nothing very unusual — it just threw a filament. Toward the middle of […]
Mont Blanc, Meteor, and Milky Way
Snowy Mont Blanc is near the center of this atmospheric night skyscape. But high, thin clouds fogged the […]
Water Droplets Don’t Just Hover on a Hot Pan. They ...
Physicists took a deeper look at the Leidenfrost effect, which you’ve likely experienced when you’ve dripped water into […]
Ice Halos at Yellowknife
You’ve probably seen a circle around the Sun before. More common than rainbows, ice halos, like a 22 […]
Just a Few Pieces of Plastic Can Kill Sea Turtles ...
A new study shows that especially for young turtles, ingesting just a little more than a dozen pieces […]
U.S., Russia Respond to Space Station Leak Rumors by KENNETH ...
After speaking for the first time, Jim Bridenstine of NASA and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Rogozin, set out […]
Watch Plants Light Up When They Get Attacked by JOANNA ...
Scientists showed that plants are much less passive than they seem by revealing the secret workings of their […]
A Different Kind of Climate Summit Comes to San Francisco ...
The international effort to fight climate change is about to get injected with a bit of Hollywood flash, […]