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California in flames
According to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the 2017 California wildfire season is the worst on record.
December 9, 2017
Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count starts December 14
Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count is one of the longest-running citizen science projects in existence. Here's how to participate.
December 8, 2017
Asperitas clouds over Tenerife
Meet Earth's newest named cloud, the asperitas cloud, 1st new addition to the International Cloud Atlas in over half a century.
December 8, 2017
Turning hurricanes into music
A meteorologist and a music technologist are turning data from tropical storms into musical graphs. Can listening to storms help us understand them better?
December 7, 2017
The largest land organism is … a fungus
Maybe you thought it was the giant sequoia or the African elephant. Not even close. The biggest honey fungus identified in North America measures 3.4 miles across!.
December 6, 2017
Yetis? Nope. DNA study says bears
A new DNA study of purported Yeti samples from museums and private collections is providing insight into the origins of this Himalayan legend.
December 4, 2017
What would Earth be like with no moon?
Earth without its moon would be a very different world indeed. No eclipses. Smaller tides. But the biggest change would be in the length of Earth's day.
December 3, 2017
Bright moon and aurora borealis
Does a bright moon means you can't see the northern lights? No. Here's awesome proof that, for photographers at least, moonlight can enhance the view.
December 1, 2017
Do songbirds share ‘universal grammar’?
A new study suggests that humans and songbirds have common biological hardwiring that shapes how they produce and perceive sounds.
November 30, 2017
Most blue whales are ‘right-handed’
Of course, they don't have hands. But scientists used motion-sensing tags to show that most blue whales roll to the right as they feed – except when swimming upward.
November 28, 2017
