A bar-tailed godwit recently arrived in New Zealand on its second attempt to get there from Alaska, after a storm had blasted it back north.
Pencil-beaked shorebirds with the ability to stay airborne for a week — flying all the way from Alaska to New Zealand — rely on a few crescents of mudflat to fuel that incredible journey.
In a cavernous room within the university’s new engineering building, a bus squats on four flat tires.
Charles Deehr will never forget his first red aurora. On Feb. 11, 1958, Deehr was a student at Reed College in Portland, Ore.
About once every other week for as long as you have been alive, zooming space rocks have penetrated the shell of gases surrounding our blue planet.
