Science

Have you ever visited a botanical garden? Have you viewed the manicured lawns, the trimmed bushes, the carefully tended flowers, and the pools with vegetation in them? One such garden included these beauties in their long list of flowers for July and August: Blackeyed Susan ‘Goldsturm”,  Crapemyrtle, Evergreen wisteria, Flame ...

What was that reaching up from the ground? A wire? An Antenna? It looked like it came from nowhere and went nowhere. When I touched it, I discovered it was a spider web. How did that single strand of web get there from a tree down to the ground? Or ...

We were spellbound. They were tiny. One at a time they came. The second one would chase away the first. The nearest we could come to identify them is that they were Ruby-throated Hummingbirds. The male has a red throat (gorget), while the female’s throat is white. Both have metallic ...

Solar Eclipse Day, April 8, 2024, was a historic day, and many traveled far to be on the path of totality. A total solar eclipse occurs when the moon travels between the sun and the Earth and seems to cover the sun’s face entirely. Those observers in the center of ...

It is being called the “Great American Eclipse of 2024.” On April 8, 2024 there will be a solar eclipse moving from the south to the northeast across America. Seven years ago in 2o17 there was another solar eclipse seen moving across the U.S. from the north to the southeast. ...