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Chris Zahm: Understanding and probing the world below our feet
Necessary resources such as oil and water lie below our feet. How today's scientists are coming to understand the world underground, while exploring for resources in safe, practical and effective ways.
May 20, 2013
A little earth and a little sky in one puddle
Thanks so much to EarthSky Facebook friend Marianna Bucina Roco for sharing this image with us!
May 20, 2013
May day in an English meadow by the sea
This meadow in Northumberland, overlooking the North Sea, typifies a landscape that many of us outside the UK imagine, when we think of England.
May 17, 2013
Beautiful flowers self-assemble in a beaker
Elaborate nanostructures blossom from a chemical reaction perfected at Harvard.
May 17, 2013
Granbury, Texas tornado rated EF-4. Sixteen May 15 tornadoes confirmed so far
A preliminary overview of at least 16 tornadoes that struck parts of northern and eastern Texas on May 15, 2013.
May 17, 2013
Two months aboard Antarctic icebreaker in less than five minutes
Time-lapse video of icebreaker traveling through Antarctic seas. Two months of sequences, condensed into less than five minutes. Enjoy the penguin ending ...
May 17, 2013
New discovery shatters conventional ideas of how agriculture emerged
Use of new analysis techniques provides food for thought about how people lived 5,000 years ago.
May 17, 2013
Mars bombarded by more than 200 space rocks per year
That might seem like a lot, but new results suggest Mars gets pummeled by space rocks less frequently than previously thought.
May 17, 2013
Billion-year-old water found in reservoir under Ontario
Researchers don't know yet whether anything has been living in the water, which has been out of contact with Earth's atmosphere for over a billion years.
May 16, 2013
How NASA might revive the Kepler planet-hunter
Scott Hubbard, a consulting professor of aeronautics and astronautics, explains how NASA might bring the planet-hunting spacecraft back online.
May 16, 2013
