NASA has selected 10 participating scientists to help shape a science plan for astronauts to complete on the lunar surface under the Artemis program - including deploying scientific instruments, making critical observations of the landing site, and collecting Moon rocks.

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NASA launches a new plan, Artemis II returns to the launchpad, and a new rocket gets a launch with a view....

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Following on from my last post on the importance of publishing data as well as testing hypotheses, I thought I'd expand a bit more on an associated problem with the idea that this area is increasingly overlooked or sidelined. There is unders...

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Spawning season has sprung for Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) in the waters off British Columbia, Canada. From mid-February through early May each year, thousands of the small, silvery fish congregate in shallow coastal areas around Vancouver Island and create a spectacle sometimes visible to satellites.

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https://assets.science.nasa.gov/content/dam/science/astro/documents/ASTRA_Web_Update_2026-03-25.pdf

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In March 2026, the first official day of the Northern Hemisphere's spring felt more like summer across much of the southwestern United States. Numerous high-temperature records fell that day amid a bout of extreme heat.    

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How do funding, workforce, and robotic lunar exploration compare between NASA's two lunar exploration programs?...

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It was again my privilege to join my Estonian colleagues on a paper (published today in Palaeoworld) describing sclerobionts (hard-substrate dwelling organisms) from the Lower Paleozoic. This time we record the earliest species of the problematic ge...

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 The Red Hills are blooming right now, so I am posting an abridged version of my post from May 21, 2021 explaining the geological conditions that formed the unique landscape.

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Intensifying droughts and extreme heatwaves are having a profound impact on olive quality, quantity and price, according to recent research....

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Saturday my wife and I saw the movie Project Hail Mary, the story of unwilling astronaut Ryland Grace (portrayed by Ryan Gosling) and his mission to save us from a plague which threatens the source of life on Earth: the ... Continue reading ??'...

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Tropical Cyclone Narelle traced a long path across the northern edge of Australia, bringing damaging winds and rain to areas already saturated with abundant precipitation. The system made separate landfalls in three different states and territories between March 20 and 23, 2026.

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M.S. in Climate student Allison Karabu reflects on the importance of community-based initiatives and finding the right questions to ask to effect real change....

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Explore how rivers move, change, and sustain life across the planet.

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Jim and Steve are just back from Galveston, Texas where they delivered an Em4 with a Wave Maker and Dye Injector to Texas A&M's campus there. The Galveston campus is home to all their water-related departments, and they have just completed a new building for Ocean Engineering. The Em4 will be a big part of their great teaching in Coastal Geomorphology.

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Pterosaur pedal scales that I recently helped describe. Anatomy is a fundamental part of palaeontological research but it's not a tested hypothesis. This is a similar post to my recent one about phylogenies in papers, in that it is a bit of a mo...

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Whether it qualifies as a "superbloom" is in the eye of the beholder, but there is no doubt that California's Carrizo Plain and the neighboring mountain ranges were awash with color as wildflowers put on their annual show in spring 2026.

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Shortly before the war with Iran began, I wrote that the seeming complacency among government officials and financial market participants was based on two assumptions which I argued were unlikely to turn out to be true: 1) Preside...

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The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress 94 spacecraft is safely in orbit and headed to the International Space Station following its launch at 7:59 a.m. EDT (4:59 p.m. Baikonur time) on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. 

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Words fall short as we watch the West's snowpack disappear under the glare of a heat wave so off-the-charts, so freakish, that I had to resort to some pretty extreme math to try to understand how freakishly off-the-charts this is.

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 Here are pictures of a piece of petrified redwood found in Wahoe County, Nevada USA. It dates to the Miocene Epoch of the Neogene Period.Thanks to Kenny for the picture. Fossil collected in 2024. ...

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Annie Todd at Cascadiadaily did a write up on the landslide that blocked the north bound lanes of Interstate 5 south of Bellingham. The article includes a very good picture of the slide via a drone shot image by Finn Wendt. Annie alerted me to the slide via email and wanted to know if I had any info; hence, some quotes in the article. 

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NASA's quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft made its second flight on Friday, kicking off a series of dozens of test flights in 2026. 

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This research identifies a diverse set of molecules released by marine phytoplankton that fuel microbial life and help drive Earth's carbon cycle....

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