‘Carnival of the Nearly Extinct Animals’ celebrates species with song
Once upon a time, flocks of passenger pigeons were so dense they blocked the sun like…
Summer Goes Out With a Heat Dome
While the calendar indicated that astronomical summer was winding down, a swath of the south-central United States was…
‘Like a Disney movie’: Three wild dog brothers make Africa’s longest journey | Endangered species
It sounds like a Disney movie: three wild dogs, all brothers, on an epic journey to find a…
NASA uses AI to help explore and research the moon’s surface
NASA shared new details about its Moon Base strategy, outlining plans to establish a long-term human presence near…
World rivers experience driest year in decades
Rivers across the world experienced one of their driest years in more than three decades last year, as…
The Sun May Have Swallowed a Planet
New research suggests that some unusual characteristics of the Sun may be explained if it swallowed a large…
In 1949, researchers testing underwater acoustics off Bermuda lowered an early recording system into the water and kept the unexplained sounds it picked up. Seventy-seven years later they were identified as what may be the oldest preserved recording of a whale singing, made before scientists understood humpback whale song.
A man’s voice reads a date onto a plastic disc. “The date, 7 March, 1949,” he says, as…
Scientists find a hidden health advantage in black and green rice
Rice is a dietary staple for more than half of the world’s population, but scientists still have much…
Weather tracker: Floods in eastern India and hurricane damage in California | Extreme weather
Flooding around the city of Malda in the Indian state of West Bengal since Thursday has had a…
Maine-native astronaut Jessica Meir excited to return to Earth soon
PORTLAND (WGME) — NASA’s Space X crew, including Maine native Jessica Meir, spoke from the International Space Station…
Do whales grieve? Rare footage of humpback alongside stillborn calf suggests they might | Olaf Meynecke for the Conversation
It was a tragic sight. One day last July, a newborn humpback whale calf lay motionless on the…
Hedgehog coronaviruses reveal potential pathways for cross-species transmission
Washington State University researchers have discovered how a group of coronaviruses circulating in hedgehogs invades host cells, a…