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For Sale: A $1 Million Bottle of Bordeaux Aged in Space

After 14 months on the ISS, the vintage Petrus could be yours.
Luke Fater May 10, 2021
Smoke billowed across New South Wales in January 2020.
science

Can Wonky Cell Signals Help Track Wildfire Smoke?

A hazy atmosphere makes data ricochet all over the place. Now scientists think they can use that signal to better predict dangerously smoky air.
Matt Simon May 10, 2021
A fisher with a sea cucumber haul in Mérida, Mexico, in April 2018.
science

A Mexican Nature Reserve Hopes to Get Sea Cucumbers Out of a Pickle

Poaching puts local fishers at risk, and two scientists are helping to brainstorm solutions.
Ellen Airhart May 7, 2021
The Red Sea, dividing Africa and Arabia, may be the world's youngest ocean.
science

Is the Red Sea Really the Red Ocean?

It's complicated.
Gemma Tarlach May 6, 2021
This freshwater jellyfish, <em>Craspedacusta sowerbyi</em>, photographed in Walden in 2020, can be as small as a penny.
science

Walden Pond Is Full of Jellyfish, But Don't Panic

Meet the generally harmless translucent residents of Thoreau's favorite giant puddle.
Jessica Leigh Hester May 5, 2021
science

Podcast: Sourdough Library

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team May 5, 2021
These snail eggs were spotted on the shore of San Clemente del Tuyú.
science

Argentine Beaches Are Sometimes Speckled With Giant, Pearly Orbs

And that's bad news for the snails that produced them.
Jessica Leigh Hester May 3, 2021
List

18 Places to Discover Innovation in Roosevelt Island and NYC

The story of the city that never sleeps is inscribed with a past full of technological innovation, engineering wonders, and scientific discoveries.
A 15th-century painting illustrates the miracle of San Frediano diverting the Serchio River in Tuscany in the sixth century, a local legend that endures in the region even today.
floods

Did Climate Change Cause a Flood of Water Miracles by Italian Saints?

Researchers link a wet period in Tuscany's past with a rise in tales of water-related works of amazement.
Sofia Quaglia April 23, 2021
Welcome back, Brood X!
science

Scientists Want Your Help Stalking Billions of Cicadas

The Brood X bonanza is almost here, and ecologists will have a lot of work—and bugs—on their hands.
Jessica Leigh Hester April 22, 2021
How many of you were there?
dinosaurs

The Thorny Problem of Tallying Every T. rex to Ever Live

Here’s why it’s really, really hard to count how many of the apex predators once stalked Earth’s surface.
Jessica Leigh Hester April 19, 2021
During examination of Peder Winstrup and his coffin a few years ago, researchers discovered the remains of a stillborn fetus, wrapped in linen and placed between the Swedish bishop's lower legs.
mummies

The Mystery of the Mummified Bishop and the Fetus in His Coffin

Remains hidden with this Swedish “founding father” likely belonged to his grandson, but questions linger.
Gemma Tarlach April 16, 2021
The La Soufrière eruption captured by a satellite.
disasters

Trying to Understand a Volcano's Jekyll-and-Hyde Eruptions

Volcanologists are doing detective work to understand what makes St. Vincent's La Soufrière go off.
Robin George Andrews April 16, 2021
Amid ice and tundra, the lighter Hayes River flows from the northeast (top right) into the dark Back River in Nunavut, Canada, but remains distinct from it for 10 miles.
science

Why Two Rivers Meet But Don't Mix in the Canadian Arctic

The Back River remains visually distinct from its tributary, the Hayes River, for several miles after their confluence.
Charlene Pinckney Goldberg April 14, 2021
Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is one of several American museums whose collections include the remains of Black people.
science

U.S. Museums Hold the Remains of Thousands of Black People

Cadavers from marginalized communities have been co-opted for collections since the 1700s.
Delande Justinvil and Chip Colwell April 12, 2021
Cattle—like these ones grazing on the Gravelly Mountain Range in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest—burp a whole lot of methane.
science

Red Seaweed Defeats Cows' Methane-Filled Burps

When it comes to battling the climate-damaging gas in belches, a little of the macroalgae goes a long way.
Nathanael Johnson March 30, 2021
Greatest science fair ever.
volcanoes

Why Does Iceland's Fagradalsfjall Volcano Look Like a School Science Project?

A spatter cone and runny lava give this eruption its classic look, and make it relatively approachable.
Robin George Andrews March 26, 2021
A scientist searches for tell-tale zircons in Western Greenland.
meteorites

When Is a Crater Not a Crater?

There's no punchline, this massive geological structure in Greenland just probably isn't a crater.
Robin George Andrews March 19, 2021