The deadline to apply for a free trip to San Francisco's incredible Science Hack Day has been extended to May 6. Winners spend two days at the California Academy of Sciences geeking out, building things, and changing the world. Learn more on the Science Hack Day site!
How to Collect Micrometeorites in Your Backyard
Meteors rain down on the earth every hour of every day. Most of these are hardly larger than a grain of rice or a pea. The majority are little more than particles of dust, 10 to 40 micrometers (0.0004-0.0016 inch) in size. The average one is scarcely a quarter of the width of a human hair. The atmosphere makes short…
Watch this airplane photobomb the Sun
Amateur solar astronomer Andrew Devey has been making daily records of solar activity since 2005. His website, The Solar Explorer, could well be the most extensive roundup of jaw-dropping solar GIFS on Earth. Featured here is one of our favorites from his browser-crashing collection. "I was filming a large active…
Check out this NOAA project that lets you track 3 decades of tropical…
Has Hurricane Sandy sent your running for bottled water and bread? Find yourself mesmerized by the Weather Channel during tropical storm season? You can put your weather fetish to work with Cyclone Center, a new citizen scientist project.
This new species of insect was discovered on Flickr
Entomologist Shaun Winterton discovered a new species of green lacewing in an unusual place: on his computer screen. Thanks to one man's love of taking nature photos and Winterton's love of looking at pictures of bugs, this little guy has been added to to our catalog of known species.
Watch a disembodied cockroach leg dance to the Beastie Boys
This is almost too awesome for words. For those of you too anxious to wait, the needle drop is at 12:00. For the rest of you, here's some background:
Was there really a vampire who fed on dinosaur blood?
Prepare to be confronted with something scarier (and cuter) than Jurassic Park's raptors. In the mid to late Jurassic, the world was full of furry, flying vampire pterosaurs who fed on dino blood.
Chase solar storms without even leaving your house
The Sun can eject billions of tons of particles at velocities up to a million miles an hour. These solar storms are incredibly difficult to predict, but a recently developed citizen science project lets you help track these storms from right behind your keyboard.
Help scientists decode the mysteries of whale songs
Have you ever listened to the complex sounds of a whale song and wished you could understand what's being said? Well here's your chance to help scientists make sense of these enigmatic underwater calls.
Merger Wars: My galaxy could eat your galaxy
What happens when two galaxies meet each other in the dark alley of space? Well, if you're around in 4 billion years, you could find out first hand when the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are predicted to collide. In the meanwhile, kill some time and help researchers with Merger Wars. Merger Wars is a new citizen…
