In 1889, Paris became obsessed with the Wild West
The French president and his wife were among the audience of thousands at the debut performance of Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show at the 1889 Paris World’s Fair. Cody’s…
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Where Venezuela’s Earthquakes Shifted the Ground
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Where Venezuela’s… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural…
World’s largest paper airplane has a 65-foot wingspan
It’s easy to craft a paper airplane capable of soaring across a classroom, but one that can travel 200 feet is a bit harder. A group of students from Italy’s…
Charles Darwin’s daughter had an unusual hobby: Hunting phallic mushrooms
On a warm autumn day in the early 1900s, Henrietta Darwin, Charles Darwin’s eldest daughter, marched into the woods near her house on the outskirts of Gomshall, a rural English…
Super Typhoon Bavi
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Students Connect NASA Science With Indigenous Knowledge to Study Coastal Erosion
Explore This Section Science Science Activation Students Connect NASA Science… Overview Resources Opportunities Citizen Science Highlights About Science Activation 3 min read Students Connect NASA Science With Indigenous Knowledge to…
Invasive (but delicious) clams discovered in Cape Cod
Not every invasive species is as dramatic or fearsome as a Burmese python or a feral hog—but that doesn’t lessen their impact on native ecosystems. Coastlines across North America and…
New satellite system could detect nukes in space
The United States officially conducted 1,054 nuclear tests between 1945 and 1992, but only one of them is known to have satellites among its casualties. In 1962, the U.S. detonated…
Hubble Captures Star-Studded Cluster
This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows Messier 3, a densely packed cluster of stars whose origins may be a merger between globular clusters in the early universe. NASA,…
Do animals really mate for life?
It’s no surprise how lovebirds got their name, and how that name became slang for an affectionate human couple. Mated pairs of these African parrots feed, cuddle, groom each other,…