I know that this covers more than a week, but I still wanted to share all the wonderful things that I found with you!
Things look very different in infrared and ultraviolet light.
Everything you ever wanted to know about black holes.
The face of the Big Bang, and here is another explanation, and another.
The planet Mercury is shrinking.
In 4 billion years, the Milky Way is going to collide with the Andromeda galaxy and it’s going to look amazing!
Want to be alerted when the ISS is passing overhead? There’s a device for that!
2/3 of Americans can’t see the Milky Way: get thee to a National Park!
Halley’s Comet will return in 2061!
Pro-tip: don’t stick your hand (or your head) in the Large Hadron Collider.
‘Can The Doppler Effect Help You Beat The Speed Camera?‘
The origin of the lights that come before earthquakes.
‘How Tardigrades Saved the Enterprise‘.
The Chernobyl fallout wreaked havoc on everything, including the microbes.
The evolutionary arms race between crops and pests.
Parasites, cat poop, and human culture.
Things look much different under a microscope.
What is a mass extinction and why should we care?
A comic about better sports mascots.
This winter’s cold could be bad for bees.
Just be glad that fleas today aren’t as large as their prehistoric relatives!
It should go without saying, but don’t ride sharks.
Frogs in pants helped to explain how sex works. Really.
Climate change is shrinking salamanders.
‘Iguanas Have Oldest Reptilian Sex Chromosome.‘
Poor sea snakes: even though they live in water, they’re always thirsty and dehydrated.
‘Homing pythons‘ slithered their way home.
The mating calls of some male tortoises.
Hummingbird songs sound surprisingly complicated when you slow them down.
What do we really know about the evolution of giant birds?
Cute comic about the calls of western American birds, and another about bird evolution.
“If there were sabercats, there must have been saberkittens.”
Big cats really like the smell of Calvin Klein’s Obsession for Men.
Cat domestication was complicated.
A bear tried to eat a GoPro Camera.
Pronghorns are weird and wonderful.
We might be getting closer to being able to clone a mammoth, but should we?
Learn about the extinction of Ice Age megafauna from the Oxford Megafauna Conference!
The return of the right whale.
‘Final Resting Place: Burials, Graves, and Funerary Rites.’
‘Where do geologists go when they die?‘
Why don’t Americans like IUDs?
‘Ancient Moss Revived After Ages on Ice‘.
In the past 39 years, the Rocky Mountain wildflower season has lengthened by a month.
It’s important to test science’s ‘just-so’ stories.
3D printing is revolutionizing paleontology.
A tornado made of fire and tumbleweeds.
Lake Michigan is beautiful in the winter.
How to dye the Chicago River green.
Check out this interactive map of all the wind turbines in the US.
Maps of earthquakes nicely outlines tectonic plates.
Light pollution can be bad for your health.
Statistically speaking, toilet seat covers aren’t worth it.
Aly Baumgartner 