Each winter, over a million “snowbirds” descend on places like Florida and Arizona to avoid the season’s freezing temperatures and instead, ride it out in warmth. For many, it’s simply…
NASA astronauts Chris Williams and Zena Cardman, both Expedition 74 flight engineers, work on spacesuit maintenance inside the International Space Station’s Quest airlock on Dec. 16, 2025. Credit: NASA NASA…
The Archaeopteryx is one of evolution’s most infamous species—but it’s also a very confusing creature. All present-day birds are technically dinosaurs, but the 150-million-year-old, raven-sized hunter is the earliest known…
The evidence is clear—and in your hair. Americans were exposed to as much as 100 times more lead in their daily lives than they are today before the Environmental Protection…
In 1958, an Australian teenager named Bruce Runnegar uncovered a mysterious dinosaur footprint during a visit to a quarry with school friends. He kept the fossil for years, eventually becoming…
NASA/Brandon Hancock NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which will carry the Artemis II crew around the Moon, sits at the launch pad on Jan. 17, 2026, after rollout. It rests atop the…
Have you ever walked into a room full of caterpillars? While the answer for most people is probably no, those of us who have may have noticed the insects reacting…
Despite advances in meteorological technology, we still keep a close eye on a rodent’s burrow every February 2 for a weather forecast. While groundhogs—also called woodchucks—have been associated with the…
Many people dream of starting their own business but wonder if they have what it takes. According to new research, you can find the answer to that dilemma in a…
While Florida is perhaps best known for its beaches and wetlands, its landscape hosts other notable features: ridges. Millions of years ago, sea levels were higher than they are today,…