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Introducing the EarthSky intern for 2011
The EarthSky internship is designed to help support excellence in science communication. Read more about the intern for summer 2011.
February 16, 2011
Egg helps determine gender of 160-million-year-old reptile fossil
A fossilized pterosaur, or pterodactyl, skeleton has been found in China, preserved alongside her unhatched egg. The find sheds light on an ancient biological mystery.
February 5, 2011
A 10-year farming experiment in Malawi
In Malawi, scientists finish a 10-years farming experiment focused on practices with to developing new, more resilient methods of food production.
January 29, 2011
Clone a mammoth? Some scientists intend to try
The woolly mammoth has been extinct for about 10,000 years. But if a research team is successful, there’ll soon be a mammoth walking the earth again.
January 16, 2011
Space telescope finds that thunderstorms make antimatter
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, in orbit around Earth, has discovered that thunderstorms create particles of antimatter.
January 15, 2011
Six Haitian frogs, lost and now found
One year after Haiti's devastating earthquake, scientists in early 2011 find hope in the rediscovery of six species of frogs.
January 15, 2011
Why do fatty foods taste so good?
Why do we like fatty foods so much? It seems we might be naturally attracted to their taste and feel.
January 14, 2011
Listening to music releases same brain chemicals as food, drugs, sex
Why do we love music so? A new study suggests it is because listening to music releases dopamine, the same brain chemical associated with food, drugs, and sex.
January 14, 2011
Good at video games? Illinois researchers could have predicted that, by imaging your brain
Illinois researchers studied 34 people who - after having their brains imaged - each spent 20 hours learning to play a video game called Space Fortress.
January 13, 2011
Garbage soup, not garbage patch, in our oceans
Angelicque White says it's a dilute garbage soup, not a garbage patch, in our oceans. But plastic can be found in across an area bigger than Texas.
January 12, 2011
