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Learn to recognize the wildlife out your window
With careful observation, you can start to recognize a particular squirrel, or that certain cardinal pair that hangs out on your feeder.
May 18, 2020
Here’s how SOHO and a skywatcher discovered comet SWAN
Almost every day, the SWAN instrument aboard the sun-watching SOHO spacecraft makes a map of the sky. Anyone with internet access can view the maps and join the search for new comets. To date, 12 comets have been spotted in the SWAN data!
May 17, 2020
Murder hornets? 5 questions answered about Asian giant hornets in North America
Are murder hornets from Asia invading North America? An entomologist who lived among them in Japan explains what's true about the predatory insects.
May 17, 2020
Submerged in water, this new device uses sunlight to produce energy
"The concept is broadly similar to an artificial leaf," researchers said.
May 14, 2020
Touching the asteroid Ryugu
It’s a spectacular achievement to rendezvous with an asteroid as it’s whizzing around the sun. It's even more amazing to collect a sample. That's what the Hayabusa2 spacecraft did in February 2019. Here's what researchers learned.
May 13, 2020
As the climate shifts, a border moves
Italy’s northern border with Switzerland depends on the natural, morphological boundaries of glaciers’ frontiers. But in recent years, glaciers have been melting at increased rates due to climate change. This has caused the border to shift noticeably.
May 8, 2020
Earth’s biggest iceberg breaks off smaller berg
The colossal iceberg from Antarctica’s Larsen-C Ice Shelf finally fractured in April, generating a new 51-square-nautical-mile iceberg.
May 7, 2020
New closest-known black hole lies in a visible star system
Only 1,000 light-years away, the star system can be seen with the unaided eye.
May 6, 2020
Insects have declined worldwide since 1925
A new study has offered the clearest indication yet of how insects all over the world are faring. The researchers studied data on the numbers and total weight of insects and arachnids (spiders and mites) sampled in 41 countries on five continents.
May 1, 2020
Coronavirus genome like a shipping label that lets epidemiologists track where it’s been
Every time the virus copies itself it makes mistakes, creating a trail that researchers can use to build a family tree with information about where it's traveled, and when.
April 29, 2020
