The comet may get very bright, but who knows?

Mathematicians are still trying to understand fundamental properties of the Fourier transform, one of their most ubiquitous and powerful tools. A new result marks an exciting advance toward that goal.

The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but ever since the Unit Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded nearly 40 years ago, other forms of life have not only move...

Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed an actively growing supermassive black hole within a galaxy just 570 million years after the Big Bang. Part of a class of s...

Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.

Moose Hill, water mite (Hydrachnidia? Eylais?) Moose Hill, caddisfly larva Canoe River, 2025-05-26 Backswimmers, in a reflection of a powerline tower Ichneumonid Pseudomethoca velvet ant Grasshoppe…

Learn why a tiny fraction of spiders live in groups rather than go alone, showing social behaviors that may be linked with brain structure.

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The Atlas blue butterfly, also known as Polyommatus atlantica, has been genetically confirmed as having the highest number of chromosomes out of all multicellular animals in the world.

Great bug walk with Don and Kyla Bennett! The highlight was the samples from the lake, but I don’t have a ton of photos of that part. Hemiptera I’m not 100% confident this is even a bug…

Great bug walk with Don and Kyla Bennett! The highlight was the samples from the lake, but I don’t have a ton of photos of that part. Hemiptera I’m not 100% confident this is even a bug…

Urban Nature Walk, organized by Jef Taylor, with the amazing Sloan Tomlinson talking about wasps! (Some quick identifications now, more at leisure in a few days). Lepidoptera The black locust leaf …

A tiny microbe discovered by accident challenges the definition of cellular life

A wonderful bug walk, led by Jace Porter, of Global Entomology Coalition: Hammond Pond, near Chestnut Hill. I didn’t know we had these nice woods so close to town. Observations, with latest e…

Hands down the best bugwatching area I’ve ever encountered. This may be normal for some people, but it feels incredibly rich for me! Here are the observations, with updated identifications: Y…

Revelations about microbes living deep inside Earth’s crust are challenging scientists’ conceptions of life and how it evolves.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a rare class of black holes. Called NGC 6099 HLX-1, this bright X-ray source see...

The Langlands program has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up new worlds for them to explore

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves using the LIGO observatories. The powerful merger produced a fin...

We are the official body that deals with astrometric observations and orbits of minor planets (asteroids) and comets.