Wild, Scenic, and Increasingly Rusty
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Wild, Scenic, and Increasingly… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human…
Holding in your sneezes really can hurt you
When I was a kid, the word on the playground was that holding in a sneeze would make your eyeballs pop out of your head. It’s the kind of scare…
60% of medieval knight tales lost to time
Before the invention of the printing press, the only way to make a copy of a text was by hand. Whether intentionally or by accident, the copy wasn’t always identical…
3 myths about cursive handwriting
Cursive is making a comeback. States and provinces across North America are re-introducing the continuous form of handwriting, making all sorts of arguments as to why. There are good arguments…
Early Career Faculty (ECF) 2025 Awards
1 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Back to ECF Home Advanced Diagnostics for High-Enthalpy Test Facilities Simulating Spacecraft Atmospheric Entry Damiano BaccarellaUniversity of Tennessee, KnoxvilleApplication…
Snake hunters gather in Florida to kill invasive pythons for $25,000 in prizes
The day has finally arrived. On July 10, hundreds of professional and amateur snake hunters entered the annual Florida Python Challenge, a 10-day race to remove as many of the…
NASA Volunteers Help Zooniverse Reach 1 Billion Classifications
Explore This Section Science Citizen Science NASA Volunteers Help… Overview Resources Opportunities Citizen Science Highlights About Science Activation The Zooniverse, a NASA grantee that runs the world’s largest platform for…
Waxing Gibbous Moon
NASA The waxing gibbous moon is nestled in the darkness of space in this June 26, 2026, image from the International Space Station. The space station was 264 miles above…
Three tiger cubs born in Kansas
In a win for animal conservation, a Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) recently gave birth to three cubs at Tanganyika Wildlife Park in Goddard, Kansas. The new litter came into…
World’s first right-hander could be this 550 million-year-old worm
As anyone who’s grown up favoring their southpaw can attest, the world overwhelmingly caters to right-handers. The vast majority of humans (somewhere around 85-90 percent) are right-handed, a tendency influenced…