Seen from space: Covid-19 and the environment

Satellites see environmental changes during the coronavirus lockdown, including reduced pollution.

Learn to recognize the wildlife out your window

With careful observation, you can start to recognize a particular squirrel, or that certain cardinal pair that hangs out on your feeder.

Murder hornets? 5 questions answered about Asian giant hornets in North America

Are murder hornets from Asia invading North America? An entomologist who lived among them in Japan explains what's true about the predatory insects.

Submerged in water, this new device uses sunlight to produce energy

"The concept is broadly similar to an artificial leaf," researchers said.

Cool! A Hubble photo translated to music

There's no sound in space. But - working with NASA - musicians and scientists turned a Hubble Space Telescope image of a galaxy cluster into music.

As the climate shifts, a border moves

Italy’s northern border with Switzerland depends on the natural, morphological boundaries of glaciers’ frontiers. But in recent years, glaciers have been melting at increased rates due to climate change. This has caused the border to shift noticeably.

What are zoonotic diseases and what can we do about them?

Infectious diseases that leap from animals to humans are called zoonotic diseases. Covid-19 is an example of a zoonotic disease caused by a coronavirus.

Coronavirus genome like a shipping label that lets epidemiologists track where it’s been

Every time the virus copies itself it makes mistakes, creating a trail that researchers can use to build a family tree with information about where it's traveled, and when.

How coronavirus drifts through the air in microscopic droplets

Aerosols are the tiny particles of liquids and material that float around in our environment. When they come from an infected person, they may be a significant source of coronavirus transmission. The science of infectious aerosols.

Satellite images: Air pollution in India plummets

It's nature with a much-decreased human influence. We've been hearing stories like this from all around the globe. People in India’s northern state of Punjab have reported seeing the Himalayas for the first time in decades. These satellite images over northern India show strikingly how aerosol levels have dropped since the Covid-19 lockdown began.