New research by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF) has found that citizen science initiatives could be one of the keys to unlocking ...

Stars aren't supposed to simply disappear, yet countless bright objects that once appeared in the sky in the 1950s no longer do. To try to solve the mystery, scientists have turned to a growing field ...

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Years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) often finds itself the butt of jokes. From satirical Webcomics to more scathing criticism, the flagship ...

For Bobby Schaeffer, observing the weather in Kotzebue is a crucial daily task. In the continuously changing Arctic, the ocean freezes later in recent years, exposing coastal communities to storms.

The team is investigating the cause of this interruption, which coincided with scheduled engineering activities. Despite this unforeseen pause, the satellite remains in optimal health, providing hope ...

For many, the term “scientist” brings up images of people clad in white lab coats clutching glass tubes, gathering data that will appear in dense academic articles that most people can’t parse, let ...