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Honey bees make poor substitutes for wild pollinators

Fifty scientists from 17 countries investigated the vital role that wild insects play in crop pollination. They sampled 600 agricultural fields on every continent except Antarctica.

Deanna Conners

March 24, 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.

Emily Howard

March 23, 2013

Shrinking wings keep swallows from becoming road kill

Decreased wingspan in cliff swallows may be an adaptation to the threat of motor vehicles.

Alex Reshanov

March 22, 2013

Officially spring, but feels like winter for many in U.S.

If you like warm weather in the eastern U.S., then you won't like the forecast for the upcoming week. Below average temperatures will be the norm!

Matt Daniel

March 22, 2013

View down an ice borehole

What does it look like to descend hundreds of meters into a deep hole of Antarctic ice?

Eleanor Imster

March 21, 2013

NASA on asteroid defense: If it’s coming in three weeks, pray

The U.S. House Science, Space, and Technology Committee met in a hearing on March 19, 2013 to discuss threats from space.

Mike Brennan

March 21, 2013

Auroras seen at high and mid-latitudes this weekend

As expected, the March 15 coronal mass ejection or CME from the sun caused auroras, or northern lights, at high and mid latitudes.

Deborah Byrd

March 18, 2013

February 2013 was ninth warmest February on record

Globally, last below-average temps for February were in 1976. Last below-average month was December 1984. If you're 27 or younger, no month of your life has had below-average temps.

Matt Daniel

March 18, 2013