This story appears in the February 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... their brains may be nut size, birds make good use of the allotted space by packing in large numbers of neurons.

Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani But a revitalized and refocused National Space Council can do one more thing: it can bring back a truly bipartisan approach to space policy. For better or worse ...

Peter Gwin is an editor at large for National Geographic and cohost of the award-winning podcast Overheard. He began as a staff writer for the magazine in 2003, and has contributed stories from an ...

President Donald Trump seems poised to dissolve the White House's National Space Council after being heavily lobbied by SpaceX to do so, Reuters reports — which ultimately sounds like a ...

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"What the founders didn't contemplate is the space race between billionaires." Musk and other billionaires' space pursuits near the national seashore ... 310 species of birds, including the ...

In new research published in Australian Mammalogy, we show a way to detect wombats and rabbits using satellites that take pictures of our planet from space. By studying high-resolution images from the ...

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BEERS, barbecues and beaches are hallmarks of Australia Day. So is the fight surrounding the national holiday. Every year Australians get tangled in an argument over the celebration, on January ...

ATLANTA — Notre Dame is angry. Notre Dame is really angry ... s 34-23 win in Monday night’s College Football Playoff national championship game, and the Fighting Irish — angrily, loudly, ...