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California wildfire from space
For 11 days, the Soberanes fire has been burning near the California coast between Monterey and Big Sur. Here are some satellite views.
August 2, 2016
Gorgeous Dry Tortugas night skies
The National Park Service normally doesn't allow night photography at the Dry Tortugas, but made an exception for this project.
July 30, 2016
How much warning for supervolcanoes?
Yellowstone supervolcano could deposit ash across the U.S. Northwest, clogging rivers and streams and affecting agriculture. How much advance warning might we have?
July 28, 2016
Being called a bird brain is no insult
A new study has found that bird brains have significantly more neurons than do mammal - even primate - brains of the same mass.
July 27, 2016
Watchers spy rare white whale Migaloo
Not all experts agree that the white whale spotted off Australia's east coast on Tuesday was the beloved Migaloo. But most are adamant it was.
July 27, 2016
Sky and Earth time-lapse, New Zealand
A new time-lapse video from New Zealand, showing both its dramatic landscape and the sky above. It's called "The Edge of Perception."
July 26, 2016
A year of Earth from a million miles
Watch a full year of Earth's sunlit side, seen from a million miles away by the DSCOVR spacecraft.
July 24, 2016
Healthy forests need birds and bees
A new study shows that we humans can help maintain healthy forests by focusing conservation efforts on the protection of animal pollinators and seed dispersers.
July 22, 2016
1st half of 2016 warmest on record
The 6-month period from January to June was our planet's warmest half-year in the modern temperature record, which dates to 1880.
July 21, 2016
Shifting identities for traveling neutrinos
MIT researchers show that neutrinos can change between several distinct “flavors” while traveling from a facility near Chicago to a detector in Minnesota.
July 19, 2016
