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Dropping Giant Rolls of Film From Satellites to Spy From Space n 1958, the Central Intelligence Agency started project Corona, a top-secret mission to perform photographic surveillance of the Soviet Union. Of course, this is before digital cameras...

What it's Like to Be Eaten by Baby T-Rex The answer is it is between being eaten by a hyena and a crocodile. To get this result, first paleontologists uncovered a fossil with bite marks...

The Most Deadly Magic Carpet Ride The volcano erupts. The immense pressure within the volcano due to the build-up of gases causes fragmentation. The thicker..

Venus is Calling! NASA announced on June 2 that it would send two missions to the hot house planet...

Emergence of the Rainforest in Absence of the Dinosaurs Recently published in Science, research focusing on the plants, rather than the usual star of the show, dinosaurs, reveals new information about the evolution of rainforests...

Reset Your Brain New research published May 10 in Nature Medicine adds to the stack of evidence that Psychedelic drugs can be used to treat mental health...

Brain-computer Interfaces Decode Handwriting The study participant, T5, was paralyzed from the neck down, but it was translated onto the screen when he imagined writing...

An Orchid’s Best Friend Although today it may be easy to buy your maternal figure an orchid for Mother’s Day from the grocery store, in the 1800s, the acquisition of orchids was a dangerous...

An X-Ray Map Reveals the Bones of the Universe On June 19, the eRosita instrument aboard the Russian-German “Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma" (SRG) mission finished cataloging more that 1 million high energy x-ray sources more than had ever been recorded before this study...

Fahrenheit is Good for Humans Scientists have to know how to speak the languages of many units. Improper unit conversions have caused much heartache and suffering...

How the Publication Process Works for Science Journals How does work become a scientific consensus? Nowadays, it has to go through a process called peer-review...

What the Columbia River Flood Basalts Teach Us Approximately 20 million years ago, prehistoric horses grazed on the flat grasslands and the now extinct bear-dog dug burrows for their young throughout the lands we now call Oregon and Washington...

Music feat. Data: Sonification of Science Graphs are the bread and butter of scientists. We love them. Lines plots, bar graphs, line plots. Visual representations of data are the default on science. However, sonification, the transformation of data into sound rather than images has been gaining interest...

Two Eruptions, Both Alike in Dignity In Iceland, where we lay our scene, lava spills orange and black tendrils from three fissures in Geldingadalir. Meanwhile across the globe in St. Vincent ash rises into the sky in a large plume from the La Soufrière volcano...

What a Cold War Mission Reveals about Climate Change Today New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that in the last 1.1 Ma the Greenland Ice sheet melted at least once and reformed...

Are Diamonds Really Forever? Quantum Mechanics says yes In late 1940, the Debeers Diamond company started using the slogan “Diamonds are forever” to popularize diamond engagement rings...

What Does a City Weigh? As you walk the pavement of your city, the buildings rising around you, the impact of a city on the landscape is clear. It changes the skyline and the view. But how does it change the ground below?

Abnormal Shrimp: An Apex Predator or Barely Chewing? The same animal was once described by paleontologists as a shrimp, jellyfish, sea cucumber, and a sponge at different times during its study...

Damascus Steel: A Premier in Material Science and Nanoengineering Material science and nanoengineering are emerging fields promising to revolutionize the industry, medicine, and energy technologies. But our understanding of both is rooted in ancient knowledge...

Ferreting out the Details of Reproductive Cloning Although all births are special and joyous occasions, on December 10, 2020, researchers celebrated the birth of an extraordinary ferret kit.

Radio Signals from Proxima Centauri Scientists at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) have detected a narrow band of radio signals coming from a narrow area around Proxima Centauri, our nearest neighbor star at 4.2465 light-years away...

Perseverance Rover's New Home Located on the Northwest side of Isidis Basin, Jezero Crater lay undisturbed except for dust storms and meteorite impacts for countless eons...

Do Trilobites Bite? You are enjoying a sunny beach day, showing off a new swimsuit. You take a dip in the water, you feel something brush your foot. You look down and it’s a trilobite. Your first panicked thought: Do trilobites bite?

The Lava Lake Returns to Kilauea On December 20, 2020, at about 9:30 PM, Halema’uma’u Crater, the traditional home of the goddess Pele, hosted the first eruption of the Kilauea volcano since going silent in August 2018...

NASA Raised an Army of Jellyfish in Space In the early 90’s, a one point there were 60,000 jellyfish orbiting the Earth. Although it sounds like the beginning of a sci-fi novel, this is actually the beginning of a...

What the Geology of Animal Crossing Reveals As a scientist principally trained in geology, when I travel I always find myself curious about the geology of the region. I have been doing a lot of traveling and plane flights recently...in Animal Crossing: New Horizons...

The Space Heist of Bennu In 2016, the OSIRIS-REx probe left Earth but unlike most other probes on their journey out to space, OSIRIS-REx does intend to return home. If all goes well, OSIRIS-REx will return to its home in 2023 carrying a precious sample...

The Phosphine Debate: The Case for Incessant Study The scene is Venus, the second planet from the sun similar in mass and size to the Earth but with a dense, cloying atmosphere of 96% carbon dioxide...

Nuclear Fission was Invented 2 Billion Years Ago Although humans first witnessed nuclear reactors in 1942 with the development of the Chicago-Pile by Enrico Fermi, natural fission reactors existed billions of years ago...

In Quarantine, the World is Quieter Earthquakes are well known to cause seismic activity in the Earth but you probably aren’t familiar with “football quakes”...

The Strange Surface of Ceres Ceres is the largest body in the asteroid belt. It represents the history of our solar system as a protoplanet, a planetary embryo...

Stratovolcanoes Represent Only 1% of Total Volume in Cascades New research by the University of Oregon and partners at the United States Geologic Survey reveals the landscape dotted with 2835 volcanoes from Northern California to the border of Washington...

The Twist in Studying Graphene Graphene is a comprised of a one-atom-thick layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb structure. This sheet can be wrapped into...

Science of Sourdough The essence of the perfect slice of sourdough bread is in the air right now. It is even on your hands...