The whooshing noise from the helicopter almost drowned out the thoughts Janneman Conradie, Marine Megafauna Foundation (MMF) pilot and field researcher, had as he looked down the lens of his camera and spotted a reef manta ray (Mobula alfredi) in what he thought was the wrong habitat for them. Almost drowned out that surprise. But […]

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare – as seen in the bright flash … [+] on the left side of the image – on Jan. 9, 2023. The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the extremely hot material in flares and is colorized in red and […]

NASA mysterious rock NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS In a photo taken by the rover Curiosity on its 3,709th day on Mars, a strange rock spotted in the upper right of the image has NASA experts puzzled. The rock of unusual grey color is sitting atop the reddish bedrock. “Pau Baru” – as the rock was named – could […]

Millions of tourists visit Hawaii every year, but tragically, these tourists are damaging and destroying the very coral reefs they come to experience, which are already at high risk of global collapse © Copyright by GrrlScientist | hosted by Forbes Tourists on Hanauma Bay, Oahu, Hawaii. (Credit: Rick Zhuang / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Rick Zhuang […]