In this 2011 video, Boston University biologist Richard Primack explains how he and his research team used Henry David Thoreau’s nature observations from the 1850s to measure the effects of ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest the cosmos may be much older than once believed. For ...

Using observations from two citizen scientists, the authors investigated STEVE’s shape, finding that the purple colors peak at around 124 miles high, while the green bars peak about 68 miles up. Those ...

Fact-checking Thoreau's observations at Walden Pond shows how old diaries and specimens can inform modern research. by Tara K. Miller, Abe Miller-Rushing and Richard B. Primack, The Conversation ...

Less research on environmental risks means we will be forced to operate with an incomplete understanding of those risks.

Observation can be combined with other methods to find out about people's experience interviews, 1-2-1 conversations, group discussions and activities: watching and responding to your participant’s ...

New research helps compile more than 130 years of on-the-ground flood observations to help communities and outside agencies prepare for and predict future floods. As fall storm season looms, so do ...