Some seabirds don’t just survive storms. They ride them. Streaked shearwaters nesting on islands off Japan sometimes head straight toward passing typhoons, where they fly near the eye of the…
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A swarm of sneaky omicron variants could cause a COVID-19 surge this fall
Fall and winter have not been kind to us over the last couple of years. In 2020, cases of COVID-19 began to climb in October. And at this time last…
A 3-D model of the Cat’s Eye nebula shows rings sculpted by jets
Roughly 3,000 light-years from Earth sits one of the most complex and least understood nebulae, a whirling landscape of gas and dust left in the wake of a star’s death…
This ancient worm might be an important evolutionary missing link
An ancient, armored worm may be the key to unraveling the evolutionary history of a diverse collection of marine invertebrates. Discovered in China, a roughly 520-million-year-old fossil of the newly…
Drone photos reveal an early Mesopotamian city made of marsh islands
A ground-penetrating eye in the sky has helped to rehydrate an ancient southern Mesopotamian city, tagging it as what amounted to a Venice of the Fertile Crescent. Identifying the watery…
Yes, You Can Create a Native Plant Garden!
Have you always wanted to start a native plant garden, but don’t know where to start? It can seem daunting to figure out which plant is suited for the right…
Dinosaur ‘mummies’ may not be rare flukes after all
It might be easier for dinosaurs to “mummify” than scientists thought. Unhealed bite marks on fossilized dinosaur skin suggest that the animal’s carcass was scavenged before being covered in sediment,…
Clumps of human nerve cells thrived in rat brains
To coax human nerve cells in a laboratory to thrive, there are three magic words: location, location, location. Many experiments grow human nerve cells in lab dishes. But a new…
NASA’s DART mission successfully shoved an asteroid
It worked! Humanity has, for the first time, purposely moved a celestial object. As a test of a potential asteroid-deflection scheme, NASA’s DART spacecraft shortened the orbit of asteroid Dimorphos…
The James Webb Space Telescope spied the earliest born stars yet seen
Some of the earliest stars yet seen are now coming to light in one of the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope. Formed roughly 800 million years after…
