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Tick’s worst day ever preserved 100 million years
A bit of amber preserved a drama from 100 million years ago, an interaction between a tick and a spider.
June 19, 2018
More wildlife now working the night shift
It's getting harder for wild animals to find human-free spaces on Earth. New research suggests that human disturbance is creating a more nocturnal natural world.
June 18, 2018
3D view of Amazon rainforest canopy
A rainforest canopy can reach 15 to 20 stories high. It's an ecosystem unto itself. Now - to study drought effects - scientists have made the 1st 3D measurements of rainforest canopies in the Brazilian Amazon.
June 18, 2018
Kilauea volcano lava river flows to sea
Kilauea volcano's Fissure 8 has produced a large, channelized lava flow that's acted like a river, eating through the landscape, finally producing clouds of steamy, hazardous "laze" as hot lava meets the cold ocean.
June 17, 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
Ice losses from Antarctica have tripled since 2012
Ice melting in Antarctica has raised sea levels by 7.6 mm since 1992, with almost half of this rise coming in the last five years.
June 15, 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
What we inherited from bug-eating mammal ancestors
If you’re an advocate for insects in human diets, go ahead. Munch on a grasshopper. The genes needed to digest bugs are still in our genome, inherited from the tiny, furry distant ancestors of all mammals, including humans.
June 13, 2018
End of the journey for iceberg B-15?
B15 was the largest iceberg ever recorded to break away from Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf. That was in the year 2000. Now the iceberg is nearly gone. See its remant from space, and the track of its journey.
June 11, 2018
How far away was that lightning?
When you see a flash of lightning, do you count seconds until it thunders? An atmospheric scientist comments ...
June 10, 2018
