News

  1. Animals

    Seabirds weren’t fooled by a scarecrow-like buoy with rotating eyes

    A tall buoy with a rotating pair of eyes was supposed to scare birds away from caught fish. Like scarecrows, it didn't work for long.

    By Bethany Brookshire
  2. Planetary Science

    An ancient moonpocalypse may explain Neptune’s odd moon Nereid

    Neptune’s oddball moon Nereid may be the sole remnant of an earlier system, formed near the planet rather than being pulled in from afar.

    By Lisa Grossman
  3. Oceans

    The outlook for a climate-regulating ocean current is…not good

    An ocean current called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation will weaken by 50 percent by 2100. The question is what to do about it.