Humans build fences. Dogs water fire hydrants. And new evidence is suggesting the owls might use their own feces to demarcate their territories. The new finding, reported in the August 20 issue of the journal PLoS ONE, hasn’t been reported very widely for the same reason my ever-astute editors at National Geographic News declined to publish [...]
Last week I was working on a story for National Geographic News about the discovery of the most recent supernova explosion in the Milky Way. The story posted on May 14, and you can find it here: Youngest Supernova in Milky Way Found. There was ample material available for reporting the story: a press release [...]
Welcome to the Behind the Science blog, which is meant to peer behind the scenes of some of the science stories I write for various media outlets, most often National Geographic News. Let there be no implication that these media outlets have endorsed the content of these entries; in most cases, they haven’t. The point [...]
