6 Ways to Be a Citizen Scientist From the Comfort of Your Couch
Take a break from online shopping and sharpen that brain by contributing a few minutes to science. Below, our editors…
Technology Is Giving Dogs Their Day
Technology has gone to the dogs. Humans aren’t the only animals who benefit from technology, and the emerging field of…
The Salty Truth About Ceres' Mysterious Bright Spots
Earlier this year, images of two bright spots captured by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on the dwarf planet Ceres sent scientists…
What Was the Top Science Story of 2015?
It’s been another year of groundbreaking science, and once again the time has come to reflect on all that’s been…
Microorganism Devours Its Prey in Award-Winning Video
It’s a ciliate-eat-ciliate world out there. As you read this, protozoans in pools of water everywhere are engaged in a…
Build it up or let it drown: future prospects for a disappearing nation
This is a guest post by Jamie M. Caldwell, PhD Candidate at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa with the Hawai’i Institute of Marine…
Human blood from a mosquito's lunch can be used as forensic evidence.
Anyone who’s ever watched Jurassic Park knows that blood-sucking insects can, in principle, be sources of DNA of their prey.…
Putting Your Data to Work With myObservatory
Editor’s Note: myObservatory is a SciStarter advertiser but had no editorial input or control over this blog post. by Kristin Butler When I…
This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 218)
Read this e-mail on the Web HTML Weekly Issue 218 — December 9, 2015 Getting Started With CSS calc() Ana…
Reality Check: The Universe Is (Probably) Not a Hologram
Sometimes science gives us mind-blowing results that fundamentally force us to revise our perception of the universe we inhabit. From…