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Next-Gen Lightning Tracker Photographs Storms From Space in Stunning Detail
Part of the GOES-16 weather satellite, the geosynchronous imager promises to improve storm detection and reveal the secrets of thunderbolts
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See the First Video of One of the World’s Rarest Whales
The 46 second clip of several True’s beaked whales was taken by students and teachers on a field trip in the Azore Islands in 2013
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Failure at One of These 15,000 American Dams Would Be Fatal
A quiet crisis is afoot as the nation’s infrastructure ages
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WHO Warns That Pollution Is Killing Millions of Children
New reports say that one in four deaths of young people under the age of five can be attributed to the environment
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Here Are All The Discoveries That Had To Happen Before Two Scientists Could Find DNA’s Structure
Watson and Crick weren’t the only ones working on the problems of humanity’s genes, by a long shot
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When it Comes to Predicting Solar Storms, Space May Not Be the Place
A new study shows that earth-based observations can get warnings out sooner
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This Sea Turtle Ate 11 Pounds of Coins
Veterinarians removed the 900+ coins from Omsin the turtle’s stomach after they noticed she was acting erratic
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Nosy Researchers Are Sniffing a Vintage Library
It’s all an effort to recreate an olfactory landscape of yore
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NASA Spacecraft Has Close Call With One of Mars’ Moons
Left unattended, MAVEN and Phobos could have collided
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Genes of the Last Woolly Mammoths Were Riddled with Bad Mutations, Study Finds
Before they died out, they lost their sense of smell and suffered from heartburn
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New Definition Would Make the Moon and Pluto Planets
A suggested update to the International Astronomical Union criteria would add over 100 planets to the solar system
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Large Hadron Collider Gets “Open Heart Surgery”
The massive physics experiment in Switzerland is receiving an upgrade
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Scientists Think These Skulls May Be New Human Ancestor
Two fossils combine early human, Neanderthal features
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African Elephants Sleep Just Two Hours Per Day, and Nobody Knows Why
That’s less than any other animal on record
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NASA Wants the Public to Log In to Help Find Planet 9
Citizen scientists can examine photos to help discover a new planet, which recent evidence suggests is hiding at the edge of the solar system
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Tracking Collars Can Lead Poachers Straight to Animals, Scientists Warn
A study says that the new technology could hurt more than it helps
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Tanning Beds Cause $343 Million in Medical Bills a Year
A new study has calculated the steep cost of a not-so-healthy glow
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Scientists Think They’ve Found the Oldest Fossil Ever
The controversial claim suggests that microbes lived on Earth half a billion years earlier than thought
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LEGO Is Making a Women of NASA Set
The toy company selected Maia Weinstock’s proposal to celebrate the space agency’s female pioneers during its Lego Ideas competition
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Take a Peek at the Mesmerizing “Cosmic Jellyfish”
NOAA’s research vessel Okeanos Explorer filmed this specimen of Rhopalonematid trachymedusa in the National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa
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