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Left: An artist’s drawing of Earth’s magnetic field (blue lines) interacting with the Sun’s charged particles (yellow lines). The Earth’s magnetosphere (orange crescent) is created by Earth’s magnetic field. It deflects those particles like an umbrella. Right: NASA MMS mission observations like those volunteers would see while participating in the Space Umbrella project.
Sun

Help NASA prepare for the next solar storm disaster

Don’t let the simple website fool you. The ‘Space Umbrella’ project is analyzing some intense cosmic forces.

a parrot with mostly green feathers and yellow feathers on the neck
Endangered Species

The parrots having human-like conversations

Yellow-naped amazons use complex, warbling duets to express their feelings.

An 1870 sepia-toned photograph of Crawford Market in Mumbai, featuring its prominent stone clock tower and Gothic-style architecture with arched windows. In the foreground, people walk along a dirt road near a horse-drawn carriage and a vintage street lamp.
Engineering

The history of clocks is one of tyranny and revolution

Turns out, time wasn’t always on our side.

Clay footprint in Scottish beach sand
Archaeology

Dog walkers find 2,000-year-old footprints on beach in Scotland

The Iron Age human and animal footprints were preserved before high winds destroyed them.

Spinosaurus mirabilis illustration
Evolution

New dinosaur discovered in Sahara desert was a horned ‘hell heron’

‘Spinosaurus mirabilis’ sported a 20-inch-tall ‘scimitar’ on its head.

Professional male musician creates new song for music album by playing synthesizer in studio. Top view at angle on head of bald man in headphones who sits at microphone and presses keys of synthesizer
Psychology

Can’t stop humming that tune? Thank math.

A lot goes into the successful ‘earworms,’ including mathematical symmetry.

a large group of yellow bananas
Conservation

New discovery could help stop banana extinction

Fungal diseases are a major threat to the global banana supply.

a large bird called a wood stork stands in a wetland. it has long legs, white feathers, and a long beak
Endangered Species

Wood storks to be removed from federal Endangered Species List

But the only native stork found in the U.S. is not out of the woods just yet.

Magnifying glass resting in open dictionary
Internet

Groovy! Dive into the world’s largest online slang dictionary

The free Green’s Dictionary of Slang celebrates 500 years of ‘vulgar tongue.’

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