Feb 14
It looks like a cultish gathering of smartphone users, and in many ways it is: this image shows African migrants on the shore of Djibouti, holding their phones aloft to snatch cheap phone signal from nearby Somalia.
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Feb 13
Presenting the money shot: during a massive storm in Dubai yesterday, photographer Michael Shainblum captured lightning zapping Burj Khalifa, aka the tallest building in the world.
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Feb 12
It’s still so cold throughout the Midwest and Northeast that roughly 80 percent of the Great Lakes have frozen over for the first time in decades. These incredible shots of frozen formations on the surface of Lake Superior, captured by The Cookery Maven’s Mary Dougherty, capture the region’s sense of frigid desolation.
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Feb 12
Pictures of rockets, meteors and the Milky Way are all amazing. But one with all three makes for an overwhelming image indeed.
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Feb 10
Okay, confession time: I’ve got a crush on the Russian Proton-M rocket. Okay, so it’s not the most reliable
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Feb 06
This image of twinkling stars is the first picture to be beamed back to Earth by the Gaia telescope—whose mission is to scan the entire sky
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Jan 31
A ground-penetrating nuclear bomb has been slammed into the surface of the US for the first time in six years—but, fortunately, without its nuclear warhead in place.
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Jan 28
Great news, everyone!
Posted in: Today's Chili
Great news, everyone! It’s so cold in Wisconsin right now that large portions of Lake Superior have completely iced over. This means that visitors to the National Lakeshore can walk right out and explore the otherwise inaccessible Mainland Sea Caves at Apostle Island. Image: Mary Dougherty–Nikon D700–The Cookery Maven
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Jan 27
The first ever full genome sequence of a European hunter-gatherer has revealed that hunter-gatherers had far better immune systems that we thought—and evolved blue eyes way earlier than predicted, too.
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Jan 26
Curiosity is the hip name in Mars-rovin, but the Opportunity rover was doing it long, long before. Just yesterday Opportunity hit its ten-year anniversary on Mars—it left Earth ten years ago in July
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