An Aroostook County man’s nature-based journal notes written in the mid-1900s are shedding light on ecological…
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Gimme six! Researchers discover aye-aye's extra finger
The world’s weirdest little primate has gotten even weirder, thanks to the discovery of a tiny…
Coral discovery equips researchers with new environmental monitoring method
A rare element discovered in Great Barrier Reef coral skeletons will help scientists understand the environmental…
The rotation of Venus
Venus is covered in a thick layer of clouds, one reason that it appears so bright…
Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise as much as predicted
Antarctica’s ice sheet spans close to twice the area of the contiguous United States, and its…
NASA map reveals a new landslide risk factor
In the deadly 2018 earthquake in the Indonesian city of Palu, intense shaking changed solid ground…
Emerging cracks in the Pine Island Glacier
The Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellites have revealed new cracks, or rifts, in the Pine Island…
New insights could help tame speedy ions in fusion plasmas
To create a practical fusion energy reactor, researchers need to control particles known as fast ions.…
Sandia scientists tell the remarkable story of shock wave physics in post-World War II America
Sandia National Laboratories physicists Mark Boslough and Dave Crawford predicted the Hubble Space Telescope would see…
World record acceleration: Zero to 7.8 billion electron volts in 8 inches
To understand the fundamental nature of our universe, scientists would like to build particle colliders that…