Nature and Science
•Animals, plants, planet •Small, digestible science explanations
Why Jupiter’s storms keep their shape for centuries
A storm that refuses to smear out On Earth, a big storm is a short-lived thing. It stretches, breaks, and fades once the winds feeding it move on.
How moss chooses the perfect sidewalk crack to colonize
Not one sidewalk, but a pattern you can spot You see it in a lot of places, not just one famous street: along Seattle sidewalks after a long wet season.
How cicadas synchronize by listening to the ground
On warm nights when cicadas are out, the sound can tighten into a steady pulse, like the insects are keeping time together.
