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How do forecasters make hurricane season predictions?
The complex interplay among many factors - African monsoons, ocean temperatures, wind shear, El Niño and La Niña – that go into predicting hurricane season.
May 23, 2021
Earliest evidence of humans changing their world with fire
Stone Age artifacts excavated near the shores of Lake Malawi in eastern Africa, combined with evidence drawn from the lakebed itself, provides the earliest evidence of ancient humans using fire to enhance their world.
May 18, 2021
Listen: Have aliens already visited us?
A podcast featuring Harvard theoretical physicist Avi Loeb, on the subject of whether 'Oumuamua - the strange object that swept through our solar system in 2017 - is an artifact of an alien intelligence.
May 16, 2021
Warming is clearly visible in new US climate normals
Climatologists at NOAA have released updated climate "normals." They explain what "normal" means, how our U.S. climate normals have changed, and how to best make sense of them.
May 14, 2021
The Brood X cicadas are emerging now
Some areas of the United States are starting to report the emergence of the Brood X cicadas after their 17-year absence.
May 11, 2021
Warp drives: Physicists give chances of faster-than-light space travel a boost
If humanity wants to travel between stars, people are going to need to travel faster than the fastest-moving stuff known in our universe: light. New research suggests that it might be possible to build warp drives and beat the galactic speed limit.
May 10, 2021
Chinese rover Zhurong to attempt to land on Mars this month
The Chinese Tianwen-1 mission’s Zhurong rover will attempt to land on the surface of Mars in mid-May 2021.
May 6, 2021
Photos of the supermoon, April 2021
The first of 2 spring supermoons in 2021 took place on April 26 or 27 (depending on your location on Earth). We received many wonderful submissions from you, our readers. Here's a gallery of some favorites. Thanks to all who submitted!
April 27, 2021
Expect flooding from this week’s supermoon, but know a lunar cycle masks effects of sea level rise
The April 2021 supermoon and the lunar nodal cycle, explained.
April 26, 2021
Check out this week’s asteroid impact exercise
Follow the action as asteroid scientists, space agencies and civil protection organizations participate in a drill - simulating an asteroid impact about to happen - during this week's virtual Planetary Defense Conference.
April 26, 2021
