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Jorge Salazar
Snowy owl sightings soar
Snowy owl sightings have soared in the lower 48 states of the U.S. in early 2012.
January 31, 2012
Sukanya Chakrabarti maps dark matter from ripples of passing satellites
Mapping the unseen dark matter halo of a galaxy, using gravitational ripples caused by passing satellite galaxies.
January 30, 2012
Amelia Wolf: Is US Southwest a good place to grow biofuels?
Biofuel production in the southwestern U.S. can add to the country's existing biofuels portfolio, according to a study by the U.S. Geological Survey.
January 26, 2012
Fresh Wisconsin snow video from R/C plane
This amazing birdseye video taken January 20, 2012 via radio controlled (R/C) plane shows a fresh blanket of snow at River Falls, Wisconsin.
January 24, 2012
New Beyoncé fly named for golden bottom
Australian scientists have named a new species of horse fly with a golden bottom in honor of the American pop diva Beyoncé.
January 15, 2012
Jean Auel on painted caves and writing about stone age life
Jean Auel talked to EarthSky about writing her bestselling novel, The Land of Painted Caves.
January 3, 2012
Rebecca Costa on thinking our way out of extinction
Costa warns that the accelerating complexity of our world problems - global recession, climate change, and pandemics - is outpacing our brain’s ability to solve them.
January 3, 2012
Mark Changizi: Why human eyes see in color
A scientist says that the human eye evolved to see in color in part to scope out what another person feels by detecting subtle color changes in their skin.
December 29, 2011
Pamela Ronald on breaking bacteria’s code
Pamela Ronald describes how researchers have deciphered a new chemical code that disease-carrying bacteria use to rally themselves. They call it Ax21.
December 16, 2011
Higgs boson, aka God Particle, possibly found
Scientists have found signs of the Higgs boson (the 'God Particle'), a hypothetical sub-atomic particle that could reveal new secrets of physics.
December 14, 2011
