Science & Space

Astronomy

• Butterfly Nebula
• Carina Nebula
• Cone Nebula
• Crab Nebula
• Eta Carinae – Double Star System
• Galaxy NGC 1947
• Haley’s Comet
• Horsehead Nebula
• Jellyfish Nebula
• Kepler’s Supernova
• Lagoon Nebula
• La Silla Observatory
• The Rosette Nebula
• Sculptor Galaxy
• Southern Ellipse
• Spaghetti Nebula
• Tadpole Nebula
• Twin Jet Nebula
• Veil Nebula
• 55 Pegasi b

Astrophysics

• Cosmic Islands Colliding
• Cosmological considerations in the general theory of relativity
• Earth Rotation Day
• Einstein-Rosen Bridge
• First Image of A Black Hole
• Hyper-Nova Explosion
• InSight Detects Two Quakes
• Dr. Michio Kaku on the Big Bang
• Nobel Prize in Physics 2020: Black Holes
• Planet GJ 1132 b Regenerates Atmosphere
• Speed of Light

Space Travel

• Apollo Disaster
• Chinese rocket tumbling uncontrolled back to Earth
• Mercury Seven
• NASA Chooses SpaceX to Return Humans to the Moon
• NASA Mars Helicopter
• Skylab (1973-1979)
• SS Katherine Johnson

Biology & Evolution

• Clarence Darrow
• Clémence-Auguste Royer
• Climate Dynamics and the Decline of Elephants and Their Precursors
• Dawkins on Darwin
• Honoré Fragonard’s 18th-Century écorché
• Mammal Extinction
• Scopes Trial Evolution Speech
• Sea Slug Regeneration
• Through A Window by Jane Goodall
• What is evolution?

Natural World / Environmental Movement

• Arctic Reindeer
• Firetip (Pyrrhopyge thericles)
• John Muir
• Marine Iguana Teeth
• Platypus
• Primate Facts
• Puffer Fish Skeleton
• Sam the Trinity Fox
• Squid Outnumber Fish
• Tardigrades (or water bears)
• Underground Carnivorous Plant Discovered
• Varieties of Turtle and Tortoise Shells

Chemistry

• Irène Joliot-Curie
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020

Earth Science & Climate Change

• Arctic Permafrost Releases More Carbon Dioxide Than Once Believed
• Greenland Ice Sheet Melt
• Green New Deal Polling
• Human Driven Climate Change
• IPCC Report on Global Warming
• Pine Island Glacier Reaching Tipping Point

Medical

• Anika Chebrolu: 3M’s 2020 Young Scientist Challenge Winner
• Ghost Organ

Theoretical Physics

• Felicia, the ferret
• Light at the End of the Tunnel
• Dr. Michio Kaku on God and Stephen Hawking
• Where are the aliens?

Today in Science

• Alfred Wegener
• Charles Darwin’s Death
• Galilean Satellites
• Galileo’s Death
• HMS Beagle
• Kennedy Space Center Opens
• Nicolaus Copernicus‘s book “On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres” is added to the Index of Forbidden Books
• Robert Goddard
• Stephen Hawking

Significant Scientist Short Profiles

• David John Chalmers
• Emile Durkheim
• Galileo Galilei
• Isaac Newton Quote
• Johannes Kepler
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Richard Phillips Feynman
• Zhang Heng

Science Denialism

• Science Denialism and the Trump Administration

Science Stamps & Collectibles

• Postal Service to issue NASA sun science forever stamps

Lectures

• Einstein Lectures at Lincoln University

Quotes

• Bill Nye on Science Education
• Carl Sagan on US Becoming a Service Information Economy
• Lawrence Krauss on the Universe
• Seneca from “Natural Questions”