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For a century fire ecologists have worked to decipher a complex question — what does a “normal” wildfire year look…

Dec. 4, 2023 MEDIA ADVISORY: M23-001 Four astronauts, including the current record-holder for the longest single stay in space aboard…

Residuals of our primary sample (gray shaded region) and BASS sources (white region) from the best-fitting mmFP, plotted as a…

Water is often the go-to resource for heat transfer, being used in large-scale cooling operations like data centers that power…

Katie Konans, NASA’s audio and podcasting lead at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is one of…

Alvin manipulator moves SOLARIS to the surface of a Paragorgia arborea colony. Credit: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Just like us,…

Parents should speak to their babies using sing-song speech, like nursery rhymes, as soon as possible, say researchers. That’s because…

In 2019, the GLOBE Land Cover project began asking volunteers to help map planet Earth by taking photos of their surroundings facing multiple…

Poposaurus, from a group of extinct relatives of the crocodile known as Poposauroidea. This crocodilian was around four meters long…

Friction is hard to predict and control, especially since surfaces that come in contact are rarely perfectly flat. New experiments…