At 25 feet deep, the Philippine Coral Reef tank is one of the deepest and largest indoor display of living coral in the world. Under the surface, hundreds of fish mingle with eels, anemones, starfish, ...
Although corals are tiny organisms, they construct some of the largest and most ecologically important structures in the world. Members of a diverse group that includes jellyfish and anemones, most ...
Thriving California aims to regenerate biodiversity, build resilience to climate change, and advance equitable access to nature across our state and in three major California ecosystems: Sierra ...
At 25 feet deep, the Philippine Coral Reef tank is one of the deepest and largest indoor display of living coral in the world. Under the surface, hundreds of fish mingle with eels, anemones, starfish, ...
To learn more about sharks visit your local library, the web, such as The International Shark Attack File (ISAF), and natural history museums and aquariums. The following publications are useful for ...
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This artist’s concept puts you up close and personal with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, a long-running mission to explore high-energy events in the Universe. (Credit: NASA/Chandra X-ray ...
This slightly psychedelic artist’s concept shows how matter is stripped from a white dwarf orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding a supermassive black hole in the galaxy 1ES 1927+654 ...
Note that you'll need Windows Media Player 9 to view this; older versions won't play it, but I'll try to get other options posted later. Thanks to Kenny Moore for preparing the video footage!
The California Academy of Sciences is both a public science museum & home to the Institute for Biodiversity Science and Sustainability, encompassing more than 500 research scientists and nearly 46 ...
Between 1922 and 1965, Ruth C. and Charles deYoung Elkus of San Francisco assembled an important collection of nearly 1700 examples of historic and contemporary Native American art, with an emphasis ...