Tracking the Glacier That Moved Twice as Fast This Year
A season with the researchers measuring a rate of change they didn't expect to see for at least another decade.
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The Entomologist Who Has Named 400 Species and Counting
On patience, taxonomy, and the backlog of unnamed insect specimens that will very likely outlive the researcher cataloguing them.
Why This Year's Flu Model Missed, in Plain Terms
A walkthrough of where the seasonal flu forecast broke down this year, and the specific adjustment researchers are making for next season.
The Weather Station That Only Measures Fog
A single-purpose instrument on a coastal hillside has quietly built a decade of fog data nobody thought to collect before it existed.
What the Deep-Sea Listening Stations Picked Up This Year
A season of hydrophone recordings from ocean-floor listening stations, and the sounds researchers still haven't been able to identify.
The Cargo Plane That Vanished Over the Rockies for Sixty Years
A small cargo aircraft disappeared over the mountains in the early 1960s. A retreating glacier finally gave up its wreckage six decades later, closing a case investigators had never been able to explain.
The Research Plane That Made One Radio Call and Was Never Seen Again
A small research aircraft radioed a routine position report over open water in the mid-1970s and was never heard from again. No wreckage, no distress call, no resolution — five decades later, the case is still open.