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Blood Falls seeps from the end of the Taylor Glacier into Lake Bonney.
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Wonder Is Everywhere: The Mystery of Blood Falls, a Carrier Pigeon Comeback, and More from Around the Web

Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.
April White July 7, 2023
Leiden, Netherlands

Ludolph van Ceulen Memorial

A 14th-century church holds a unique monument to a German mathematician who dedicated his life to calculating the value of pi.
An adult male orangutan contemplates his next move in haze produced by Indonesia’s 2015 wildfires.
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Wildfire Smoke Changes Orangutan Calls in Borneo

During massive fires in Indonesia, the critically endangered primates' voices provided clues to their overall health.
Wendy Erb July 3, 2023
A still from a recently declassified Navy video from 2015 depicting ... well, no one is quite sure.
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6 Stories of Aliens and the Unexplained That Are Just Out of This World

Centuries of strange tales, from ETs to flying saucers, to celebrate World UFO Day.
April White June 30, 2023
Holmdel, New Jersey

Karl Jansky Monument

A monument commemorating the discoverer of radio astronomy.
Edinburgh, Scotland

Royal Observatory Edinburgh

Even though some of the buildings date back to the Victorian era, this research institute is still involved in cutting-edge astronomy research.
The Delta College Planetarium
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9 Planetariums to Get Lost in the Cosmos

Travel the stars without leaving Earth.
Jonathan Carey June 23, 2023
Sepp Kipfstuhl of the East Greenland Ice-Core Project examines a sample taken from where fast-moving and slow-moving ice meet in the Greenland Ice Sheet.
science

Wonder Is Everywhere: The New Tornado Alley, the Coolest Library in the World, and More From Around the Web

Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.
April White June 23, 2023
Kiama is one of about a dozen white rhinos at Disney Animal Kingdom, where caretakers work to keep the animals happy and healthy.
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Disney's Animal Kingdom Rhinos Are the 'Real Housewives' of Orlando

Keeping the gossipy big animals healthy and happy means spa days and spritzes of cologne.
Karuna Eberl June 15, 2023
By 1994, the seaweed had died back on Mearns Rock and mussels were elbowing in.
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Alaskans Have Photographed This Boulder for 33 Years

In 1990, a scientist began visually documenting Prince William Sound’s recovery from the Exxon Valdez oil spill. When funding ran out, volunteers took over.
J. Besl June 12, 2023
This seems like a perfectly reasonable way to decorate a home in a fancy neighborhood. Maybe?
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Wonder Is Everywhere: A Fight Over Optimus Prime, the Richmond Rat Boy, and More From Around the Web

Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.
April White June 9, 2023
On the nesting colony platform, a common tern watches over its chicks beside tufts of artificial grass that mimic the birds' traditional nesting habitat.
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Maryland's Rare Seabirds Get a Life Raft and Babysitters

Scientists don bike helmets and dodge bird poop to care for a colony of endangered common terns.
Ashley Stimpson June 6, 2023
After the destruction caused along the Miami beaches by Hurricane Andrew, in 1992, five new lifeguard stations were created, striking colorful, geometric figures on the waterfront. Another wave of these buildings appeared in 2015.
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Kick Off Summer With 7 Unique Beach Reads About the Beach

Surprising stories from where land meets sea.
April White June 1, 2023
Elzada Clover smiles at the camera while sitting in the Wen on Bright Angel Creek in the Grand Canyon.
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The Historic Grand Canyon Adventure Two Women Had for Science

Botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter braved rapids and steep cliffs to catalog numerous plant species.
Sarah Durn May 29, 2023
science

Podcast: Tick Collection

What can we learn from these blood suckers?
The Podcast Team May 29, 2023
On Tuckernuck Island, the American giant millipede is in danger of losing its head. Scientists don't know what is responsible for the unprecedented number of decapitations.
science

The Mystery of the Headless Millipedes

Every summer, hundreds of millipedes are murdered on one small Massachusetts island.
William von Herff May 26, 2023
science

This New Species Is a Fish out of Water by Choice

The Juan Deriba killifish, found in a tiny area of Bolivia, jumps out of water to evade threats.
James Hall May 23, 2023
A Steller’s sea eagle near Sapporo, Japan.
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What a Roving Steller's Sea Eagle May Tell Us About Ourselves

Thousands of miles from its native range, the raptor illustrates how attitudes toward nature vary.
Adriana Craciun May 22, 2023