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Valdivia, Chile

Foucault Pendulum of Valdivia

A 63-foot-tall swinging ball hypnotizes passersby, and proves to any remaining doubters that the Earth is spinning.

A kitten nips at a human's finger.

Study Shows Female Felines Prefer Right Over Left Paw

It seems that lady cats are righties, but male cats not so much.

Christina Ayele Djossa January 23, 2018

The researchers tested around 20 species of fungi before declaring <em>T. reesei</em> the most promising.

The Fungus That Could Patch Up Cracking Buildings

What if concrete could heal itself from the inside out?

Jessica Leigh Hester January 22, 2018

Science for the People at 2017's March for Science.

Why a Radical 1970s Science Group Is More Relevant Than Ever

A second life for an organization of scientists who questioned how their work was being used.

Sarah Laskow January 22, 2018

The world's largest air-insulated Van de Graaff generator demonstrates the power of electricity.

Boston, Massachusetts

World's Largest Air-Insulated Van de Graaff Generator

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

The Diana Site.

Wall Township, New Jersey

Project Diana Site

The first dish to bounce radio signals off the Moon, it was the forerunner to the U.S. Space Program.

Sandown, England

National Poo Museum

This British museum hopes to take the taboo out of poo.

Aerial view of the SCBI

Front Royal, Virginia

Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

This sprawling farm was once a Cold War-era hideaway for the nation's top diplomats.

<em>Caihong juji</em> was a study in contrasts.

How We Know That This Dinosaur Had Bright, Audacious Plumage

Microscopic structures hint at an iridescent past.

Jessica Leigh Hester January 15, 2018

Public Standards of Length at the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

London, England

Public Standards of Length

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

A modern eagle's eye is four to eight times stronger than that of the average human's.

An Amazing Fossilized Eye Reveals How an Ancient Bird Saw

Feast your eyes on this.

Natasha Frost January 12, 2018

A robot plunged deep into the ocean to map the erupted lava (in red) around the Havre caldera.

What We Can Learn From Mapping a Massive Underwater Volcano

Researchers sent an autonomous underwater vehicle and a robot to study Havre, which erupted in 2012.

Jessica Leigh Hester January 11, 2018

Aerial recording of Summit Camp, Greenland.

Summit Camp

This remote research station sits amid the second-largest ice sheet on the planet.

An anole egg, laid by a female in the colony.

At an Underground Harvard Lizard Colony, Scientists Study Speciation

Several hundred brown anoles are helping researchers discover how new species come to be.

Geoffrey Giller January 8, 2018

A bonnethead shark in a New Orleans aquarium

The Shark That Thrives on a Flexitarian Diet

For the bonnethead shark, fish can be friends, not food.

Natasha Frost January 8, 2018

An illustration of the 1793 flight of the sheep, the rooster, and the duck.

A Rooster, a Duck, and a Sheep Walk Into a Hot Air Balloon...

...and make aviation history, of course!

Eric Grundhauser January 3, 2018

This Vietnamese crocodile lizard is just one of 115 new species identified in the Greater Mekong region.

The Latest New Species Discoveries From the Greater Mekong

Three mammals, two fish, 11 reptiles, 11 amphibians, and 88 plants, all from the same region.

Eric Grundhauser December 28, 2017

Keep on swimming!

Watch a Baby Sea Turtle Waddle Up a Treadmill For Science

Research has rarely been so adorable.

Eric Grundhauser December 26, 2017