Nature and Science

You can watch a mantis shrimp in a reef tank and still not be ready for what its “punch” actually does. This isn’t one single place or event.

You can be eating the same breakfast in April and in October and still feel different. A stuffier nose. A slightly touchier stomach.

Underground trade is normal in forests If you walk through an old forest, it’s easy to picture each tree living on its own.

Seeing a pigeon thread a city canyon Stand near a big intersection in Manhattan or central London and watch a pigeon cut between towers.

If you point a radio telescope at Jupiter, you don’t get a steady hum. You can get sharp squeals, bursts, and crackles.

Why the ocean can change the sky Have you ever looked at a low, bright deck of clouds along a coastline and wondered why it’s so uniform?

Why rock can behave like a liquid It feels backwards to imagine wind making glass.

Seeing fish where fish shouldn’t be People sometimes walk outside after a storm and find fish on the road.

Sand dunes don’t always point downwind Stand on a big dune field and you expect the ridges to line up with the dominant wind.

Sunlight can drop without anyone noticing Most people think of a bad harvest as a local problem. Too much rain. Not enough rain.