wonders

A mixed zooplankton sample

Episode

426

Earth’s Greatest Migration

June 24, 2025

Sunrise on the Tetons

Episode

418

Grand Teton National Park

April 29, 2025

The Wallace Line is an imaginary boundary that separates diverse animal populations found on the Southeast Asian Sunda and Australian Sahul continental plates.

Episode

415

Mystery of the Wallace Line

April 8, 2025

A frozen wood frog held in the lab.

Episode

403

Frogsicles

January 14, 2025

NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured a photo sequence of four moons of Saturn passing in front of their parent planet. The moons, from far left to right, are the white icy moons Enceladus and Dione (each preceded by their own shadow), the large orange moon Titan, and icy Mimas.

Episode

402

How Planets Get Moons

January 7, 2025

Rakus with his wound, on June 23, 2022, two days before he was observed applying a poultice of medicinal leaves.

Episode

399

Orangutan, Heal Thyself

December 17, 2024

The mushrooms of Armillaria ostoyae are the fruiting bodies of a much larger organism that spreads underground.

Episode

396

The Humongous Fungus “Among-Us”

November 26, 2024

A light microscopy image shows the marine algae Braarudosphaera bigelowii.

Episode

394

When Small Organisms Merge

November 12, 2024

Bright solar flares light up sunspot regions on the Sun on August 31, 2012

Episode

390

Solar Flares versus Coronal Mass Ejections

October 15, 2024

Light-adapted common sunflower (Helianthus annuus) field with all sunflowers facing east

Episode

380

Plants Can Dance

August 6, 2024

Entrance to Big Bend

Episode

372

Big Bend National Park is 80

June 11, 2024

View of Big Bend National Park at dusk

Episode

371

Rio Grande's Big Bend

June 4, 2024

A 17-year-old Magicicada cassini female laying eggs in nests on a twig

Episode

368

Cicada Cacophony

May 14, 2024