Sign Up for Our Amazing Newsletter!
A daily update by email. Science news, great photos, sky alerts.
Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.
Posts by
Eleanor Imster
Dust from Africa spreads into the Americas
This past weekend, a massive dust cloud from Africa's Sahara Desert swept across the Atlantic and caused hazy skies across Texas, Mexico and parts of Central America.
July 3, 2018
Lotus
The Southeast Botanical Gardens in Okinawa, Japan, has a lotus festival every summer. "They’re blooming now!" said photographer Beverly Fish.
June 29, 2018
Great white sharks dive deep into warm-water whirlpools
Researchers tracked 2 great white sharks to find out where they spend their time. Watch a cool video of the tricky job of tagging Lydia, a great white swimming in Florida waters.
June 27, 2018
Arrival
A sliding rock under the Milky Way at Racetrack Playa in California's Death Valley. Photo by Yuri Beletsky.
June 23, 2018
Fossils of 2 new creatures from dawn of animal life
Researchers found the 2 fossils in a South Australian fossil bed dubbed "Alice’s Restaurant Bed,” a tribute to the Arlo Guthrie song lyric “You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant.”
June 20, 2018
Midnight sun over Norway
Tommy Richardsen captured this gorgeous image in Nordreisa, Northern Norway, a few minutes before midnight on June 13, 2018.
June 20, 2018
Bees understand the concept of zero
Scientists just learned that honeybees can understand the concept of zero. That puts bees in an elite club of clever animals - some birds, monkeys, humans - that can grasp the abstract notion of nothing.
June 17, 2018
New image of the Tarantula Nebula
Glowing brightly about 160,000 light-years away, the Tarantula Nebula is the most spectacular feature of the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of our Milky Way's satellite galaxies.
June 17, 2018
Storm on the way
Storm heading towards Taylor’s Lake near Horsham, Australia on June 11, 2018. Photo by Lynton Brown.
June 16, 2018
Gulf of Mexico 2018 dead zone forecast
NOAA scientists project that this summer’s Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone or ‘dead zone’ – an area of low to no oxygen that can kill marine life – will be about the size of Connecticut.
June 14, 2018
