May 11, 2012 · The lack of a term for the black-billed magpie may be because the bird was not in Southwest Alaska until recently. The long-tailed relative of ravens and jays seems to be extending its …

Mar 21, 2013 · While Taras waded through a winter’s worth of snow to point out the scratchy wing marks of a magpie or similar-size bird, another instructor worked in a white crater 30 feet away, levering …

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Feb 19, 2026 · The Northern Lights and the aurora borealis are two names for the same thing. The term aurora borealis was first used by Galileo in 1619 to suggest the likeness of the northern lights to an …

A tandem of NASA sounding rockets blasted off from Poker Flat Research Range at about 1:30 a.m. today on a mission to better understand how...

Jul 21, 1994 · We all appreciate that sea otters are right up there with giant pandas for pure critter appeal. It wouldn't do for our visitors to think these bewhiskered, back-floating charmers are anything …

Feb 19, 2026 · The experts' horror of ultraviolet light isn't really new. For years they've been warning sunlovers like me that sunshine ages skin--young tanned hides quickly become old leathery ones, so …

Nov 26, 1997 · Detective novels are my favorite escape reading; I love whodunits and howdidits. Thus I was easily lured into a recent set of articles in the British journal New Scientist that dealt with using …

Dec 18, 2025 · Probably the best possible way to clear a forested area for agricultural use is in-place burning of whatever vegetation exists. Unfortunately, this is not easy to do because forest fires do …

Nov 6, 2025 · The Richter scale uses seismographs to measure actual ground motion at a specific distance (100 km) from the earthquake epicenter (origin). Earthquakes smaller than Richter scale 3 …