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Emily Howard
Sea lion is first non-human mammal shown to keep a beat
Previously, only birds with talents for vocal mimicry were thought to possess rhythmic ability in the animal kingdom.
April 5, 2013
Monument Valley timelapse
Enjoy this timelapse video of the American Southwestern landscape as shot by Les Projections de la Cabane in September of 2009.
March 23, 2013
ALMA Telescope officially goes online
When running at maximum observational power, ALMA will see the universe in a resolution 10 times greater than that of Hubble Space Telescope. Its altitude - above 40% of Earth's atmosphere - is part of what makes it so powerful.
March 13, 2013
Video: What type of electricity hurts more: AC or DC?
Ouch! Mehdi Sadaghdar answers this question by running electricity through his own body and giving us feedback.
March 11, 2013
Man reunites with gorilla after five years apart
Conservationist Damien Aspinall reunites with the gorilla he raised, five years after the gorilla was released into the wild.
March 4, 2013
EarthSky to cover ALMA Telescope Inauguration on March 13
EarthSky was recently awarded the opportunity to cover the inauguration of ALMA, the most powerful telescope yet built.
March 1, 2013
Video: A 1967 version of the Office of the Future
In this 1967 video clip, Walter Cronkite shows us the office of the future. His predictions, though visually dated, are more accurate than you might expect.
February 24, 2013
Video: The life of flowers
Watch flowers bloom in this popular timelapse video by Vorobyoff Productions.
February 18, 2013
Video: Timelapse of night sky over southern oceans
In this 2011 video by Alex Cherney, watch the Milky Way unfurl itself over the Southern Ocean coast of Australia.
February 10, 2013
Hadron Collider used to create sound
Scientists at the LHC are converting data from both real and simulated particle collisions into sound. Hear a proton collision played on marimba.
March 4, 2011
