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Top 10 Species Discovered in 2020 Include a Harry Potter Snake and Desert-Dwelling Broccoli While homo sapiens sheltered in place, 2020 also saw explorers diving out into the wilds of the world, finding astonishing new species never before seen by science. Some slither, others skitter. There are monkeys, snakes, spiders, frogs, plants, and even the longest animal ever recorded. They were found all across the continents; from Madagascar to Bolivia, from India to Namibia, from Iran to Australia, and from North Carolina, to Heathrow Airport. There are plenty of reasons to feel like 2020 deserve...

PALO ALTO, Calif. (KGO) -- Scientists have long noted that we've mapped more of the moon's surface than we have the floor of our oceans. That is about to change. The daunting task has a small team of researchers off the Australian coast spending the New Year, battling high winds and churning seas. Their work has ties to the Bay Area. Scientists off the east coast of Australia are pinging in the New Year. They're sending out sonar beams from a research vessel as a 10-year international effort gets underway to map the entire ocean floor. "We have a huge task ahead of us," said Dr. Helen Bostock...

9 Things You Should Know About Events and Discoveries in 2020 Over the past 12 months, a global pandemic caused the world to come to a near standstill. Yet despite COVID-19 being the primary event of 2020, numerous other significant discoveries and events occurred during this disruptive year. Here are nine such events and discoveries from 2020 you may not have heard much about. 1. Due to the complexity of vaccine development, creating a new vaccine can take more than a decade. The fastest vaccine developed before 2020 was for the mumps, and that process took four years. But the biotech compa...

The Wildest Animal News From 2020 These are the stories about birds, bugs, fish and mammals that surprised and delighted readers the most this year. Credit...Lily Benson Dec. 23, 2020 It was a rough year for Homo sapiens. The coronavirus pandemic highlighted our vulnerabilities in a natural world that is constantly changing. Many were pushed to find new levels of resolve and creativity to survive. While humans quarantined, birds, bugs, fish and mammals put their own ingenuity on display. The year 2020 was when murder hornets appeared in the United States, scientists introduced us to an octopu...

Out of the Blue Livestream Series to feature Ben Cosgrove Share Max García Conover photo Out of the Blue Livestream Series with Ben Cosgrove is set for 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 23. Cosgrove is a traveling composer, pianist, and multi-instrumentalist from New England. He travels constantly all over the country, performing a unique variety of original instrumental music that explores themes of landscape, geography, and environment and straddles a line between folk and classical music. He has toured, recorded and collaborated with a long list of artists that includes The Ghost of Paul Revere, Max...