More from Mary Beth Griggs (Page 4)

You have to admit that this horseshoe crab looks just like Darth Vader

You have to admit that this horseshoe crab looks just like Darth Vader

By Mary Beth Griggs

How to prepare your home for winter

How to prepare your home for winter

By Mary Beth Griggs

We are basically positive that the Russians did not find alien bacteria in space

International Space Station

We are basically positive that the Russians did not find alien bacteria in space

By Mary Beth Griggs

Volcanic eruptions are incredibly hard to predict. Here’s why.

By Mary Beth Griggs

The lake is basic. The slippery, scuba-diving fly that lives there is not.

The lake is basic. The slippery, scuba-diving fly that lives there is not.

By Mary Beth Griggs

Will the world shake with more large earthquakes in 2018? Time will tell.

Will the world shake with more large earthquakes in 2018? Time will tell.

By Mary Beth Griggs

The Keystone pipeline just spilled another 210,000 gallons of oil

By Mary Beth Griggs

How to watch a meteor shower like a pro

By Mary Beth Griggs

Pluto New Horizons

Pluto is way cooler than it should be, and now we might know why

By Mary Beth Griggs

blue marble Earth image

Should we try to fix global warming with fake volcanic eruptions? TBD.

By Mary Beth Griggs

After a brief pause, carbon emissions are back on the rise

By Mary Beth Griggs

We’d rather that bridges never wobbled—but here’s why they do

We’d rather that bridges never wobbled—but here’s why they do

By Mary Beth Griggs

More evidence that the dinosaurs were super unlucky with regards to that whole asteroid thing

More evidence that the dinosaurs were super unlucky with regards to that whole asteroid thing

By Mary Beth Griggs

Here’s the weird alphabet soup that scientists use to name stuff in space

Here’s the weird alphabet soup that scientists use to name stuff in space

By Mary Beth Griggs

NASA’s future Mars robot will take the fastest pictures yet of the red planet

By Mary Beth Griggs

The ozone hole is at its smallest size since 1988, thanks to hot air and a massive international effort

The ozone hole is at its smallest size since 1988, thanks to hot air and a massive international effort

By Mary Beth Griggs

There’s apparently a giant void in the Great Pyramid. Here’s why we don’t know what’s in there.

There’s apparently a giant void in the Great Pyramid. Here’s why we don’t know what’s in there.

By Mary Beth Griggs

Space dust is stirring this star’s plasma soup

By Mary Beth Griggs

Giant ice cracks in Antarctica stymie important research for the second winter in a row

Giant ice cracks in Antarctica stymie important research for the second winter in a row

By Mary Beth Griggs

Jupiter's auroras

Jupiter’s strange, pulsating auroras are even more mysterious than we thought

By Mary Beth Griggs

A strange object from outside our solar system just zoomed past the sun

By Mary Beth Griggs

You should make fermented veggies—for science

You should make fermented veggies—for science

By Mary Beth Griggs

The coloring of a raccoon-eyed dinosaur could reveal its habitat

The coloring of a raccoon-eyed dinosaur could reveal its habitat

By Mary Beth Griggs

This lonely human skull might belong to an ancient tsunami victim

This lonely human skull might belong to an ancient tsunami victim

By Mary Beth Griggs

Millions of years ago, hollow trees literally tore themselves apart to grow

Millions of years ago, hollow trees literally tore themselves apart to grow

By Mary Beth Griggs

These Staten Islanders lost their neighborhood to Sandy. Here’s why they’re not taking it back.

These Staten Islanders lost their neighborhood to Sandy. Here’s why they’re not taking it back.

By Mary Beth Griggs

blue marble Earth image

This entourage of weirdos hangs out in Earth’s cosmic neighborhood

By Mary Beth Griggs

2017’s most awe-inspiring—and devastating—wildlife photos

By Mary Beth Griggs

merging neutron stars

Neutron star collisions may have created most of the gold in the universe

By Mary Beth Griggs

This year’s 11 most important innovations in engineering

Best of What's New

This year’s 11 most important innovations in engineering

By Mary Beth Griggs

We could actually learn a lot by going back to the Moon

By Mary Beth Griggs

If an astronaut gets hurt on the moon, this is how we’ll rescue them

If an astronaut gets hurt on the moon, this is how we’ll rescue them

By Mary Beth Griggs

Longhorn beetle

These are the most beautiful pictures of bugs you will ever see

By Mary Beth Griggs

These dirty birds show why we need natural history museums

These dirty birds show why we need natural history museums

By Mary Beth Griggs

boy holding a model plane

A man who’s participated in 41 space missions remembers the Sputnik launch

By Mary Beth Griggs

60 years ago, Sputnik shocked the world and started the space race

60 years ago, Sputnik shocked the world and started the space race

By Mary Beth Griggs

SpaceX wants to build the Swiss Army knife of rockets

SpaceX wants to build the Swiss Army knife of rockets

By Mary Beth Griggs

Mars orbiter and landers

All the countries (and companies) trying to get to Mars

By Mary Beth Griggs

NASA is teaming up with Russia to put a new space station near the moon. Here’s why.

NASA is teaming up with Russia to put a new space station near the moon. Here’s why.

By Mary Beth Griggs

Elusive, unusually large tree-dwelling rodent discovered in the Solomon Islands

Elusive, unusually large tree-dwelling rodent discovered in the Solomon Islands

By Mary Beth Griggs

These hermit crabs shack up inside living coral instead of mere shells

These hermit crabs shack up inside living coral instead of mere shells

By Mary Beth Griggs

Earthquakes are even harder to predict than we thought

Earthquakes are even harder to predict than we thought

By Mary Beth Griggs

This scorching black exoplanet takes in all the light it can and gives almost nothing back

This scorching black exoplanet takes in all the light it can and gives almost nothing back

By Mary Beth Griggs

Cassini just smashed into Saturn’s atmosphere. What comes next for solar system exploration?

Cassini just smashed into Saturn’s atmosphere. What comes next for solar system exploration?

By Mary Beth Griggs

Glance through Cassini’s last glimpses of the Saturn system

By Mary Beth Griggs

Eulogy for Cassini: A fond farewell to a faithful explorer.

Eulogy for Cassini: A fond farewell to a faithful explorer.

By Mary Beth Griggs

Cassini will plunge into Saturn and pull our heartstrings with it

By Mary Beth Griggs

A timeline of Cassini’s plunge of fiery doom on Friday

A timeline of Cassini’s plunge of fiery doom on Friday

By Mary Beth Griggs

8.1 magnitude earthquake is one of the strongest to ever hit Mexico

8.1 magnitude earthquake is one of the strongest to ever hit Mexico

By Mary Beth Griggs

A brief history of origin theories

By Mary Beth Griggs

Bats’ echolocation has one major blind spot

Bats’ echolocation has one major blind spot

By Mary Beth Griggs

Time is understood very differently across cultures

By Mary Beth Griggs

Strange signals were just spotted coming from a distant galaxy

Strange signals were just spotted coming from a distant galaxy

By Mary Beth Griggs

Found: A star that last dazzled astronomers in 1437

Found: A star that last dazzled astronomers in 1437

By Mary Beth Griggs

Where will all the water from Hurricane Harvey go?

Where will all the water from Hurricane Harvey go?

By Mary Beth Griggs

We’ve been predicting eclipses for over 2000 years. Here’s how.

We’ve been predicting eclipses for over 2000 years. Here’s how.

By Mary Beth Griggs

I write about space for a living—and I’m probably skipping the total eclipse

By Mary Beth Griggs

Scientists found something surprising at the heart of these jellyfish galaxies

By Mary Beth Griggs

City-dwelling sea snakes are changing colors for a strange reason

City-dwelling sea snakes are changing colors for a strange reason

By Mary Beth Griggs

Bats are disappearing from churches in Sweden, and that’s not a good thing

By Mary Beth Griggs

A key government report on climate change is out. Here’s what you need to know

By Mary Beth Griggs

Future surgeons might patch you up with synthetic slug secretions

Future surgeons might patch you up with synthetic slug secretions

By Mary Beth Griggs

The moon might be hiding more water than we thought

By Mary Beth Griggs

From our archives: Chasing eclipses in the 19th and 20th century

By Mary Beth Griggs

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