According to the WMO, the meteorological station at Verkhoyansk has been observing temperatures since 1885, one of the longer records anywhere in the high north. The town has a population of slightly ...
Once every synodic month, the Sun, Moon and Earth move into a geometry that puts Earth inside the Moon’s downstream sodium stream. Neutral atoms released from lunar soil have been accelerated away ...
A body in the young star cluster IC 348 weighs only about twice as much as Jupiter. It does not orbit a star, yet it carries a warm disk of gas and dust that may contain the raw material for smaller ...
Enhanced-color view of Deimos acquired by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on February 21, 2009. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona ...
A bicolor damselfish, one of the two species whose escape responses were measured. Photo: Andy Blackledge, CC BY 2.0. Looming is the word for what an approaching object does to an eye. The image of ...
Near the base of the Dallol hydrothermal field in Ethiopia’s Afar region sits a pond barely 60 meters long, its water tinted pale yellow by dissolved iron. Chemists who sampled it found a total ...
A faceted crystal disperses light into a spectrum. Representative image for an article about measuring solar silver through spectral lines; this is not study data or an image of silver on the Sun.
Sisters Islands, Singapore. Photo: Stefan Fussan / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 Eight structures went down on bare sand in 2018. Four years later, the two that nobody planted anything on were ...
On any given launch day somewhere in the tropics, a rubber weather balloon rises with an ozonesonde and radiosonde suspended beneath it, sending measurements of ozone, pressure, temperature and ...
A collared flat-backed millipede (Polydesmus collaris), photographed in Teramo, Abruzzo, Italy. It belongs to Polydesmidae, the same family as the newly described Triramidesmus kazakhstanus, and is ...
Placing concrete in a block at the mid-section of the dam, an eight-cubic-yard bucket handled by an overhead cableway. Bureau of Reclamation photograph via the US National Archives (NARA 293921), ...
Sea-surface temperature anomaly of the global ocean at end of June 2026 (Copernicus Climate Change Service / ECMWF). The world’s oceans are hotter than instruments have ever recorded them, the ...
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