Watching This Hummingbird Play in a Fountain Will Brighten Your Day
Sometimes it’s the little things that truly make your day. After adding a small fountain to her balcony…
UCLA scientists develop mineral sunscreen without the chalky white cast
UCLA scientists have created a mineral sunscreen formula that leaves far less of the pale, chalky residue that…
Dark matter may be naturally tuned to a hidden fifth dimension
Dark matter appears to hold galaxies together, yet it has never shown itself directly. A new theory suggests…
Cuttlefish passed a version of the marshmallow test, waiting up to two minutes for a better meal, and the ones that held out longest also learned fastest
A common cuttlefish hovers at the far end of a glass aquarium, its skin rippling, two sealed drawers…
Juvenile humpback whale washes ashore in Winthrop
Local News An investigation is underway into the death of the young whale, which was discovered lodged under…
Astronauts who have seen the whole Earth at once describe the overview effect — every war and border and argument hanging in silence — and afterwards traffic and small talk can feel strangely far away, like the world seen through glass
Edgar Mitchell, riding home aboard Apollo 14 in February 1971 after walking on the Fra Mauro highlands, watched…
In 1970, Venera 7 appeared to fall silent when it hit Venus, but engineers later found 23 minutes of faint radio data buried in the recording — the first transmission ever received from the surface of another planet
Venera 7’s radio signal appeared to end when the Soviet capsule reached Venus on 15 December 1970. The…
Citizen Scientists Helped Decipher How Harvestmen Became Oddly Devoted Dads
The post Citizen Scientists Helped Decipher How Harvestmen Became Oddly Devoted Dads appeared first on A-Z Animals. Traditionally,…
Astronauts returning from long stays in orbit say the smell of rain is almost too much to bear and a familiar street feels like something they are piloting rather than driving
Scott Kelly stepped out of the Soyuz capsule in the Kazakh steppe after 340 days aboard the International…
Colorado bear lounges on backyard patio feet from barking dog, then calmly strolls away
Residents near one Arvada, Colorado, backyard got an unusually close look at local wildlife after a large black…
We’re Underestimating the Power of ‘One-in-a-Thousand-Year’ Solar Storms, NASA Warns
Cataclysmic solar storms may be rare, but they do happen. And unlike the legendary 1859 Carrington Event—which knocked…
Expert explains why it’s ‘unusual’ a sevengill shark was involved in Bruny Island attack
Daryl McPheeI think it’s a very isolated event. If I was in Tasmania, I wouldn’t be particularly concerned…