Big Picture Science

From the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae to dark matter mysteries - the Vera Rubin Observatory is capturing images unparalleled in depth and detail. Don't miss this stellar episode: buff.ly/gTtWGrO

Professional + amateur astronomers = exoplanet discovery. @AllPlanets describes how a @SETIInstittue citizen science collaboration is advancing exoplanet research. buff.ly/gTtWGrO

Catching a wavelength: The Vera Rubin Observatory uses six filters from near-infrared to near-ultraviolet to unlock cosmic secrets. Find out what they reveal about stellar nurseries and galaxies in this week's episode, Scoping the Universe: buff.ly/gTtWGrO

The James Webb Space Telescope is revolutionizing how we study mysterious Fast Radio Bursts with its incredible resolution and sensitivity. But what exactly ARE they? buff.ly/gTtWGrO

Fast Radio Bursts: millisecond flashes from distant galaxies that have astronomers puzzled. Could they be from magnetars? Black holes? Something else entirely? Amanda Cook and Seth Shostak speculate. buff.ly/gTtWGrO

The Vera Rubin Observatory's "cosmic treasure chest" captures high redshift galaxies, the Virgo cluster, AND asteroids all in one stunning image. Clare Higgs @VRubinObs describes how the telescope did it in our latest episode. buff.ly/gTtWGrO

Amateur astronomers are confirming exoplanets using small digital Unistellar telescopes. Franck Marchis @AllPlanets shares how citizen scientists discovered TOI-4465 b We’re Scoping Out the Universe: buff.ly/gTtWGrO

We're scoping out the universe with first images from the Vera Rubin Observatory, @VRubinObs, the first observatory named after a woman. Plus, citizen scientists help discover exoplanets. buff.ly/gTtWGrO

Everything may seem calm and serene when you look into the night sky. Recent energetic radio bursts across the universe might beg to differ. On this episode, we’re “Scoping Out the Universe.” buff.ly/gTtWGrO

Powerful telescopes are key to discovering new phenomena and even life on other planets. This week, we're “Scoping Out the Universe” with @allplanets, where they discuss exoplanets and other recent discoveries. buff.ly/gTtWGrO

Biologist David Haskell provides pointers for how to “sit with a flower” and observe its shape, textures, and scent it as way to better connect with it and to strengthen our connection to the living world. buff.ly/COIOVqv

Flowers evolved to use scent as a long-distance communication system, releasing a stream of fragrance that insects follow upstream toward the awaiting plant buff.ly/COIOVqv

The soundscape of the natural world—bird song and the buzz of bees—is due in part to flowering plants. Some flowers even act like acoustic receivers, detecting the buzz of bees and responding by producing sweeter nectar: buff.ly/COIOVqv

Biologist David Haskell says flowering plants are more than decorative. We owe our existence to them. “There would be no humans on this planet because we evolved in the grasslands or at the edge of the African grasslands.” Take a tour of our Floral Planet: buff.ly/COIOVqv

Biologist David Haskell, author of “How Flowers Made Our World: The Story of Nature’s Revolutionaries,” describes how flowering plants transformed our world when they arrived on the scene 250 million years ago, giving rise to prairies and rainforests buff.ly/COIOVqv

“Flowers are often associated with being feminine, so in a patriarchal society, that means weak and not in charge. Whereas, if you look at the record of life on this planet, flowering plants built the habitats that we have today” – biologist David Haskell buff.ly/COIOVqv

Celebrated biologist David Haskell describes how flowering plants quickly transformed life on the planet when they arrived on the scene 250 million years ago and why nearly all life depends on flowering plants. Call it petal power! buff.ly/COIOVqv

Discover how flowering plants took over and transformed life on this planet when they arrived 250 million years ago and why there’s no such thing as a “vegetable.” If you are what you eat, part of you is probably flowers. Hear more on this week's episode: buff.ly/COIOVqv

The DUNE project will create and fire neutrinos 800 miles from Fermilab in Illinois to a detector nearly a mile underground in South Dakota, where enormous liquid-argon tanks will capture rare argon-neutrino interactions, says physicist Kate Shaw buff.ly/M01THVj

Neutrinos change identity as they travel. They oscillate among three types—electron, muon, and tau neutrinos—and can even change back again. This behavior reveals that they have mass, contrary to the Standard Model prediction of zero mass. buff.ly/M01THVj