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Podcast: Chile Pepper Institute

How New Mexico became a chile pepper wonderland.
The Podcast Team May 19, 2023
Pando, called simply The Tree by those who know it best—and love it most—is a single organism that covers an area larger than 100 football fields.
forests

Pando As You've Never Seen It Before

The Utah aspen grove is one of the world's oldest and largest living things. It's finally getting its close-up.
Amiee Maxwell May 16, 2023
A sea lamprey that's clearly ready for its close-up—and for a new appreciation of its role in its native ecosystems.
science

Sea Lampreys, Long Reviled, Are Finally Getting Some Respect

Once dismissed as "ugly," this sucker-mouthed fish plays an important role in its native ecosystem.
Ted Williams May 15, 2023
The life-size cat figure at Huttenstrasse 9 (June 2014).
Zurich, Switzerland

Schrödinger's Cat

Hidden in the garden of physicist Erwin Schrödinger's house is a life-size figure of a cat from his famous thought experiment.
At the high-tech military food center colloquially known as Natick Lab, R&D achievements include a vacuum microwave-dried cheeseburger (center top) and other shelf-stable meals.
science

How to Feed an Army

Go behind the scenes at the Massachusetts military lab engineering the fuel of the future.
Diana Hubbell May 12, 2023
Trays at the US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine’s Metabolic Kitchen are prepared for an employee taste-testing panel.
science

Food Innovations That Came from War

Thank Uncle Sam for Cheetos, air fryers, and other modern mainstays.
Diana Hubbell May 12, 2023
The packaging laboratory where researchers design and test ways to transport and store rations in a wide variety of environments.
science

The Evolution of American Military Food

What would George Washington's spruce beer-chugging troops have thought about today's cheesecake rations?
Diana Hubbell May 12, 2023
A Close Combat Assault Ration, which provides calorie-dense nutrition and is shelf stable for years.
science

Feeding Armies Throughout History

From Sparta to the Mongol Empire, soldiers needed fuel for the fight.
Diana Hubbell May 12, 2023
The last wild Round Island hurricane palm stands nearly 30 feet tall, towering above other palms.
islands

This Mauritius Palm Is the Last of Its Kind in the Wild

Dedicated scientists are going to extremes to save this rare plant from extinction.
Ryan Truscott May 10, 2023
A bald eagle catches a coot in its talons at Orlando Wetlands Park in February 2023. The park—a natural wastewater treatment facility—attracts more than 230 bird species, as well as alligators, turtles, bobcats, and other wildlife.
science

This Orlando Water Park Is Wild. No, Really.

At Orlando Wetlands Park, water goes for a ride—through a natural filtration process—and attracts birds, gators, and more.
Gemma Tarlach May 9, 2023
Digitizing gravestones from the colonial era preserves them for future study and makes them more accessible, but it also raises questions about how to study this period of American history.
cemeteries

Burial Hill's Historic Gravestones Are Coming to Your Screen

Digitizing markers at the Massachusetts cemetery makes them more accessible.
Anya Gruber May 8, 2023
science

Podcast: National Poo Museum

A place where excrement is elevated.
The Podcast Team May 8, 2023
NOAA's P-3 N42RF.
science

Podcast: Hurricane Hunters

We go on a bumpy ride with the Hurricane Hunters, who fly into storms in the name of science.
The Podcast Team May 2, 2023
Brady's Rocks are the southernmost surface exposure of the massive Niagara Escarpment.
Eagle, Wisconsin

Brady's Rocks

These modest Midwestern formations are kin to Niagara Falls' impressive cliffs, more than 600 miles away.
The basket star (<em>Gorgonocephalus eucnemis</em>), on display at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, is a deep sea species related to the sea stars seen in more shallow waters.
aquariums

How to Recreate the Deepest, Darkest Ocean

Revealing the unseen world under Monterey Bay.
Kevin McLean April 25, 2023
Scroll down to see a full-scale pain index, with Justin Schmidt's own poetic descriptions.
science

Ranking the Pain of Stinging Insects, From ‘Spicy’ to ‘Shockingly Electric'

Remembering one passionate entomologist who poetically described and classified more than 70 species' painful stings.
Lauren Young April 24, 2023
Medieval buildings at Songa Mnara, one of many coastal Swahili ports and settlements that connected East Africa to Arabia, Persia, China, and Southeast Asia.
science

Ancient DNA Restores the Origin Story of the Swahili People

New research complicates both modern and colonial-era ideas about the medieval East African civilization.
Chapurukha Kusimba and David Reich April 24, 2023
Margherita Gagnoni, the winner of the competition, drew inspiration from the possibility of life-bearing conditions on Jupiter's moon Europa.
science

Make the Official Mocktail of the European Space Agency

Inspired by a mission to Jupiter, this bright blue drink bested 69 other 'space juices'.
Sam Lin-Sommer April 21, 2023