María Paula Rubiano A.

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Corroded munitions with sea life grown over.
Climate Change

The ocean is a giant dump for chemical weapons. Can we clean it up before it’s too late?

By María Paula Rubiano A.

A reconstruction of the sunspot captured by the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope on January 28th, 2020. The original image was taken in the wavelength of 530 nanometers - in the greenish-yellow part of the visible spectrum–. Researchers modified it to show up red and orange to the naked eye
Science

Images like this one could help reveal the Sun’s inner workings

By María Paula Rubiano A.

A photo of Mount Everest behind clouds and under a blue sky.
Climate Change

Cold War-era satellites bring bad news about melting glaciers around Everest

By María Paula Rubiano A.

A group of Buffalo rests under a tree in the middle of a savannah, in Africa.
Animals

Animals are finding surprising ways to adapt to rising temperatures

By María Paula Rubiano A.

A photograph of the International Space Station floating 250 miles above the Earth.
International Space Station

Humans have lived on the ISS for 20 years—here are the coolest discoveries we’ve made

By María Paula Rubiano A.

A human hand holds a light brown vampire bat.
Animals

Vampire bats socially distance when they feel sick

By María Paula Rubiano A.

sea pickles
Animals

We finally know why sea pickles glow

By María Paula Rubiano A.

An image taken by the European Southern Observatory in Chile shows the Apep star system and the stellar dust particles surrounding it.
Black Holes

This pair of dancing stars will one day collide and explode

By María Paula Rubiano A.

A drone-photograph shows an illegal mine in the middle of the Amazon rainforest. The image shows two artisanal pools, where the miners separate gold from rocks using mercury.
COVID-19

A pandemic-created ‘gold rush’ in the Amazon is destroying Indigenous lands

By María Paula Rubiano A.

Dhritiman Mukherjee captured this gharial daddy giving over 100 of his offspring a ride on his back.
Animals

This crocodile daddy giving 100 babies a ride puts your carpool to shame

By María Paula Rubiano A.

Bear 128 'Grazer', with medium blonde coat and light fluffy ears standing at the edge of the water with tall grass behind her.
Animals

How scientists try to weigh some of the fattest bears on Earth

By María Paula Rubiano A.

A green frog from Madascagar sits on a leaf.
Animals

What hundreds of pickled frog carcasses can tell us about their enormous eyes

By María Paula Rubiano A.

Fan
DIY

Breathe easier during wildfires with a DIY air purifier

By María Paula Rubiano A.

This latest image of Jupiter, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on Aug. 25, 2020, was captured when the planet was 406 million miles from Earth. A unique and exciting detail of Hubble’s snapshot appears at mid-northern latitudes as a bright, white, stretched-out storm traveling around the planet at 350 mph. Hubble shows that the Great Red Spot, rolling counterclockwise in the planet’s southern hemisphere, is plowing into the clouds ahead of it, forming a cascade of white and beige ribbons. Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, thought to hold potential ingredients for life, is visible to the left of the gas giant.
Science

Crisp Hubble snapshot shows powerful new Jupiter storms

By María Paula Rubiano A.

A violet-green swallow perched on a wire
Animals

Thousands of dying birds out West could reveal an even bigger environmental tragedy

By María Paula Rubiano A.

The photo was taken by NASA’s camera EPIC, which takes pictures of the planet every two hour from NOAA’s satellite DSCOVR. You can spot the plume of wildfire smoke off the west coast of the United States.
Environment

West Coast wildfire smoke is visible from outer space

By María Paula Rubiano A.