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Massive Tsunami Debris Highlights Problem of Trashed Oceans
A man looks at a 70-foot-long dock with Japanese lettering that washed ashore in Newport Oregon more than a year after a tsunami devastated Japan (Photo: AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) About a year after...
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Science Images of the Week
Doppler radar installation in Arizona’s Empire Mountains, east of Tucson (Photo: Bill Morrow via Creative Commons/Flickr) Curiosity takes a picture of its heat shield dropping away during its descent...
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Science Images of the Week
The Z machine, the largest X-ray generator in the world, is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It concentrates electrical energy, turning it into short pulses of enormous power, which can then be used...
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Study Finds Energy Use in Cities Causes Winter Warming
Waste heat from major cities is contributing to warmer winters, according to a new study. (Photo: Petr Magera via Creative Commons at Flickr) Everyday energy consumption in urban areas could be...
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Scientists Find the Coldest Place on Earth
This image shows the location of record low temperature measurements for Antarctica. (Ted Scambos, National Snow and Ice Data Center) Winter officially arrives in the Northern Hemisphere in about 10...
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Science Images of the Week
International Space Station crew members captured this remarkable image of a sunrise. The photo was taken just a few minutes before the the June 19, 2014, spacewalk. (NASA) A robotic giraffe, shown...
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The Best Science Images – February 2015
NASA released this composite of x-ray and infrared images taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory on Feb. 12. It shows the remnants of supernova G299.2-2.9, a type Ia supernova about 16,000 light years...
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NOAA Scientists Hope to Unlock Secrets of Nighttime Thunderstorms
Lightning flashes across the night sky (Carolina Ödman via Flickr/Creative Commons) Most thunderstorms get their incredible energy from the sun’s heat, but some of the storms gain their strength at...
View ArticleScience Scanner: Cat Videos Can Help You, Permanent Dust Cloud Surrounds Moon
Watching Cat Videos Can Give You a Boost You can hardly surf the Internet without stumbling across a cat video, and new research suggests those videos could actually be good for you. Of all the...
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NASA Camera Snaps Images of the Moon Crossing Face of The Earth
This animation features actual satellite images of the far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun, as it crosses between the DSCOVR spacecraft’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) and...
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Researchers Map Plastic Debris in Pacific Ocean
Plastic ocean debris littering Hawaiian shoreline. Hawaii is located near the center of the North Pacific gyre where debris tends to concentrate. (NOAA) A team of volunteers, sailing in a flotilla of...
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Most Brilliant Supernova; Protein Hunts/Kills Cancer Cells; ETI in Old Star...
This is an artist’s impression of the record-breakingly powerful, superluminous supernova ASASSN-15lh as it would appear from an exoplanet located about 10,000 light years away in the host galaxy of...
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New Ebola Drugs Possible; New Weather Satellite; Bacteria or Virus?
Colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) revealed some of the ultrastructural morphology displayed by an Ebola virus virion. (CDC/Frederick Murphy) Ebola Antibodies Could Lead to Effective...
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January 2016 Science Images
Small remote controlled drones have become a popular item lately but this is one is big enough to actually carry a passenger. This is the EHang 184 that was on display at the Consumer Electronics Show...
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The Day Geoscience Saved the World From Possible Armageddon
Artist illustration of events on the sun changing the conditions in Near-Earth space which can generate geomagnetic storms. These storms can interupt radar, radio communications and electrical grids on...
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The air down there
To keep an eye on our changing climate, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Global Monitoring Division (GMD) operates six atmospheric baseline observatories around the world. They...
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September 2016 Science Images
One of the last images of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko that was taken by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission. This shot was taken at 0818 UTC 9/30/16 from an altitude of 5.7 km above the...
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New blood: The South Pole replacement crew arrives
After a week of high winds, blowing snow and general pea-soup conditions, the weather cleared. The sun emerged from its temporary hibernation in a fortress of grey steely clouds, and our ice-crusted...
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Advanced Weather Satellite in Space; Can Migraines Lead to Stroke?
Launch of NOAA’s GOES-R satellite (NASA/Kim Shiflett) NASA Launches NOAA’S Advanced Weather Satellite On Saturday, 11/19/16, NASA launched the first of four advanced weather satellites for the National...
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Back to Civilization
The smell of decaying cedar and brine wash over me in slow, undulating waves. A light rain, falling from a mosaic of low-lying slate-grey clouds, coats my neck and arms in chilly dampness. I can taste...
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