Twig Science Reporter

Shinichi Furuya et al., Surmounting the ceiling effect of motor expertise by novel sensory experience with a hand exoskeleton. Science Robotics, 10, eadn3802 (2025). DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.adn3802

Severe Weather Hits United States

NOAA

Saturn's Rings Disappear

Saturn near Opposition, June 2017. D. Peach, E. Kraaikamp, F. Colas, M. Delcroix, R. Hueso, G. Therin, C. Sprianu, S2P, IMCCE, OMP

Southern California Wildfires

Map data from OpenStreetMap

Life Under the Ocean Crust

Courtesy of Schmidt Ocean Institute

COP29

Sky News
BBC
NBC Universal Media

Giant Pumpkins!

Miramar Events
2024 Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off

Hurricanes Helene and Milton

NOAA

Helping to see the colors of fall

Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation

Space Exploration, spelling & surgery!

NASA/JPL-Caltech
USGS/NASA Landsat
Virtual Incision

Clever Raccoons and Astrophotography

Dr. Lauren Stanton (University of California Berkeley)
Kyle Spradley (University of Wyoming)
National Maritime Museum
Tom Williams
Daniele Borsari
Gábor Balázs
Xin Feng and Miao Gong
Tom Rae

A sailing cargo ship

TOWT
Alexandru Enache
Ronan Gladu
Jose Mendez
HAROPA Port
Ports America

Ocean Secrets Revealed

The South Australian Research and Development Institute (Aquatic Sciences)
The University of Adelaide
Marine Mammal Research Program (MMRP) at UH Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB)
Alaska Whale Foundation.
Kirk Murray (photos) / University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist(OSA)
Sean Grasso, seancine.com

Corn sweat and soil sounds

Flinders University – Traci Klarenbeek
Jake Robinson
Baker Consultants Ltd

Storms, swarms, and 2024 so far

Sean Grasso, seancine.com
Intuitive Machines
NASA / SpaceX
Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida
Jaimi Gray Schmidt Ocean Institute
San Diego Wildlife Alliance
James D. Tiller and James Di Loreto, Brittany M. Hance, Smithsonian. Phillip R. Lee.

An amazing aurora borealis display

NASA/SDO
NOAA

Endangered Species Day

NASA’s Earth Observatory Laumer et al.
2024 Scientific Reports & Safruddin, Armas Fitra, Ulil Azhari, Adami & TNGL & KLHK & MPI & UNAS & YEL

Robots and Drones

University of Glasgow
Carnegie Mellon University
Advanced Navigation

Swiftiequake, California Condor, Robodog

San Diego Wildlife Alliance
Sean Grasso, seancine.com
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Scientific Visualization Studio

Cicada-palooza and Flying Insects

Nature Communications
Samuel T. Fabian
Nash Sondhi
Pablo E. Allen
Jamie C. Theobald
Huai-Ti Lin

Earth Day

Shawn Miller
© Copyright CSIRO Australia

NYC Earthquake, Blossoms, and Clever Dogs

EarthCam
CBS Broadcasting Inc.
FOX31 KDVR
Eötvös Loránd University
Marianna Boros
Miklós Zsámba
Oszkár Dániel Gáti

Bumblebees, Coral Reefs, and VR

Queen Mary University of London
Dr Alice Bridges
Ocean Culture Life
MARS
Ines Lange
ESA - European Space Agency

Digital Library of Museum Collections

Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida
Jaimi Gray
Daniel J Paluh
Zach Randall
Ed Stanley

Whale sounds and sea life discoveries

Tecumseh Fitch, University of Vienna
Coen P.H. Elemans, University of Southern Denmark
Patricia Jaqueline Matic
Schmidt Ocean Institute
NOAA

A Historic Landing on the Moon

Intuitive Machines
NASA / SpaceX

Dinosaurs

Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Yale University
Yale Peabody Museum
Bayla Arietta
Manafzadeh, A.R., Gatesy, S.M. & Bhullar, BA.S., https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-44832-z
Seoul National University
Park, J., Son, M., Park, J. et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50225-x

Iceland's Volcanic Eruptions

LiveFromIceland.is

Black History Month

US National Archives
Defense Visual Information Distribution Service
NASA

Final flight for NASA's Ingenuity

NASA
JPL-Caltech
ASU
MSSS

Extreme Winter Storms Hit the US

NASA-JPL
Caltech
NOAA
ABC News
CBS News

Hummingbirds in Tight Spaces

Game-Changing Landing System: Skyryse
Hummingbirds in Tight Spaces: Marc Badger/UC Berkeley
Shape Changing Fabric Massachusetts: Institute of Technology (MIT) https://doi.org/10.1145/3586183.3606732

Fossil Robot

Buried Treasure Ministero della cultura Euclid Telescope ESA – European Space Agency ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Fossil Robot Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering

New Coral Reefs

New Food Experience: Monash University
New Coral Reefs: Schmidt Ocean Institute
Antarctic Drone: Windracers

Solar Eclipse

Solar Eclipse: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Human ExoskeletonSuit: Wandercraft
Unreadable Scroll: University of Kentucky

Fossilized Footprints

Fossilized human footprints: Courtesy of the National Park Service.
TidyBot: Jimmy WuKurt Hickman/Stanford University
Dark matter / World’s Largest Digital Camera, Olivier Bonin/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA

Record-Breaking Astronaut

OSIRIS-REx Capsule NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab/Scientific Visualization Studio
Record-Breaking Astronaut MBRSC NASA
Staying Strong in Space Canadian Space Agency ESA - European Space Agency NASA

New World Heritage Sites

3-D Printed Food: Revo Foods
Nesting Octopuses: MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)

Morocco Earthquake

WindWings: © 2023 Cargill, Incorporated. © 2023 Yara Marine Technologies. © BAR Technologies Ltd
Coral Robots: Autodesk, Coral Maker, Tim Campbell

Giraffe Surgery

AI Racing Drone: University of Zurich, Robotics and Perception Group
Giraffe Surgery: Ron Magill / Zoo Miami
Wearable Sat Nav: Rice University

Brain Implant Technology

Robots Build Homes: ICON
Sea Urchins Lose Grip: Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences
Brain Implant Technology: Chang Lab / Pete Bell

Chandrayaan-3 Moon Mission

Moon Landing: Isro
Life Under Vents: Schmidt Ocean Institute

Sneaky Fish

Strawberry Picking Robot: Organifarms GmbH
Sneaky Fish: Sam Matchette / University of Cambridge

Super Blue Moon

Pyramid Wind Turbine: X1 Wind

Canada Wildfires

Moley Robotic Kitchen: Moley Robotics
Canada Wildfires: BC Wildfire Service
Saildrone: Courtesy Saildrone

Construction Robot

Space Tourism: NASA / Virgin Galactic
Deep Sea Mining: DeepCCZ expedition / SMARTEX Project, Natural Environment Research Council, UK smartexccz.org / ROV Isis, SMARTEX Project, Natural Environment Research Council, UK
Construction Robot: Built Robotics

Paralyzed Man Walks

Rolling Bridge: Bridge designer Thomas Randall-Page, film by Jim Stephenson and Nyima Murry
Rewilding Tasmanian Devils: Aussie Ark
Paralyzed Man Walks: NeuroRestore

Space Junk Art

Space Junk Art: Max Alexander
Whale Sand Scrub: Jan-Olaf Meynecke, Johan Gustafon, David E.Cade / CNRS-Acoustic Communications team and Cetamada
Robot Arms:The information Somatics Lab / Prototyping & Design Laboratory, University of Tokyo JST ERATO INAMI JIZAI-BODY PROJECT

Shell Helmet

New Weather Satelite: ESA / Mlabspace /Eumetsat
Shell Helmet: Koushi Chemical Industry TBWA\HAKUHODO
VR Glove: Bifrost

The Earth in Ultra-HD

The Earth in Ultra-HD: NASA
Helpful Fish Poop: Rice University
Toy Brick 3-D Printer: Cardiff University

A Portable Wind Turbine

Parrot Calls: Rebecca Kleinberger, Jennifer Cunha, Megha M Vemuri, Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas
Portable Wind Turbine: Aura Technologies Inc
Experiment Capsule: Gravitilab | Nasa

Juice Blasts Off

Juice Blasts Off: ESA / Juice / JMC
Seawing: Airseas / PolRYSE / Ville de Bordeaux, Louis Dreyfus Amateurs
3-D Printed Arm: Unlimited Tomorrow Inc

Artemis II Crew Revealed

Artemis Crew Revealed: NASA
DribbleBot: Mike Grimmett/ MIT CSAIL
Snailfish: The University of Western Australia | NQAA

A New Spacesuit

New Spacesuit: NASA / Axiom Space / Manny Jawa
Fostered Cheetah Club: Zoos SA
Self-Burying Seed Carriers: Carnegie Mellon University

Baby Weedy Seadragons

Robot Sculptor: Robotor / Filippo Tincolni and Giacomo Massari
Baby Weedy Seadragons: Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego
Drone Delivery: Wing

Rising Wolf Numbers

3-D Printed Heart: Melanie Gonrick / MIT
Rising Wolf Numbers:INBO/ANB
Mushroom Surfboard: BBC Wales News / Steve davis

Endangered Insects

X-AR Headset: MIT Media L:ab / Signal Kinetics
Endangered Insects: Levon bliss / M. Shanley AMNH
3-D Printed Basketball: Wilson Sporting Goods / EOS

Baby Dancing Lemur

Trash Bot: Courtesy of AMP Robotics
Baby Dancing Lemur: ©Chester Zoo
Future Farming: Interstellar Lab | Dassault Systèmes

Cockatoo Tools

Snakebot: Northeastern University
Cockatoo Tools: Osuna-Mascaró et al
Synthetic Skin: Brandon Martin / Rice University

Recording Polar Sounds

Earthquake Rescue: Earthquake Help Project
Polar Sounds: Cities and Memory
Robot Painter: Carnegie Mellon University

A New Way to Land Planes

Selfie Bear: City of Boulder

Light Pollution Levels Rise

Racecars: Indy Autonomous Challenge
Shapeshifting Robot: Matter/Wang and Pan et al.

Spotting Walruses from Space

3-D Printing: Natalie Larson, Lewis Lab at Harvard University
Walruses: WWF-UK / British Antarctic Survey / Maxar
Robot Technology: Boston Dynamics

Protecting Indian Rhinos

Ozone Layer: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center / Jefferson Beck
Drops of Life: Angel Fitor

The Secrets of Frog Camouflage

Collecting Plants:Outreach Robotics / Ben Nyberg - NTBG
Frog Camouflage: Duke University / Carlos Taboada / Jesse Delia et al. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abl6620
Winter on Mars: NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona

Melting Ice Threatens Penguins

Nature Drones -
Imperial College London
Empa
Yusuf Furkan Kaya
Aerial Robotics Laboratory
Travel Machine - BeTRITON

Testing a Space Balloon

Space Balloon - NASA/JPL-Caltech/Near Space Corporation/ESA

NASA Hits an Asteroid

Asteroid Hit - NASA
Hurricane Ian - Nick Underwood / NOAA NASA Earth Observatory / Joshua Stevens

Counting the World's Ants

Plastic Pollution - Plastic Fischer GmbH
Black Hole Sound - NASA/CXC/SAO/K.Arcand, SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman/Scott Wiessinger
Brittanny Taylor Photography

Building Artificial Reefs

Artificial Reefs - Ørsted WWF Denmark
Drone Photo Awards - DRONE PHOTO AWARDS 2022
- Mehdi Mohebipour
- Denise Azuelos
- Hristo Dimitrov
- Enrico Pescantini
- Florian Ledoux
- Satti Mohammed
- Armand Sarlangue

To the Moon and Back

Space Balloon - NASA/JPL-Caltech/Near Space Corporation/ESA

NASA Probe Reaches the Sun

Solar Giraffe- Foundation Carlos Morgado Legitness Moz
Sun Probe - NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
Dinosaur Egg - Lida Xing
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004221014875
Illustrations of Oviraptorids - Masato Hattori
Illustration of Oviraptorid embryo within egg - Julius Csotonyi

A Floating City Planned for South Korea

Artificial Muscles - Clone Incorporated (Automaton Robotics)
Mushroom Leather - MycoWorks
Jesse Green
Laura Gutierrez
Picklap Films

Octopuses Classified as Sentient

Floating City - OCEANIX BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group
Asteroid Mission - NASA / JHU Applied Physics Laboratory
Jelly Ice Cubes - UC Davis

Sea Turtles Make a Comeback

Sea Turtles - Projeto Biodiversidade
Transforming Jeans - IKEA Mud Jeans International
Winter Weather - NOAA

Transforming the Streets of Paris

Reviving Paris -
Skateboarding Robot - California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech), DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.abf8136
Wildlife Photography -
- ©Pal Marchhart, Peek-a-boo
- ©Dawn Wilson, Shaking Off 2020
- ©Sarosh Lodhi, Dancing Away to Glory
- ©Arthur Trevino, Ninja Prairie Dog!
- ©Jan Piecha, Chinese whispers
- ©Gurumoorthy K, The Green Stylist
- ©Philipp Stahr, Sweet lips are for kissing!
- ©Martina Novotna, Mr. Giggles

A New Underwater Sculpture Park

Amazon Seeds - Instituto Socioambiental | Fábio Nascimento

A Space Balloon Prepares for Passengers

Recycled Concrete Bridge - EPFL
Space Balloon - Space Perspective

Rare Twin Pandas Are Born

Robot Snake - Kamilo Melo, BIOROB - EPFL
Twin Pandas - (c) ZooParc de Beauval

Artificial Clouds Help Protect Coral

Protecting Coral - Southern Cross University

NASA Investigates a Metallic Asteroid

Whale Snot - (C) 2021 Ocean Alliance, whale.org
Metallic Asteroid - NASA | Psyche Mission | NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio
Parrot Beak - Patrick Wood

Microscopic Photos of Natural Worlds

Regenerated Land - Business Insider | Emily Harger
Rare Angel Shark - Jake Davies, JD Scuba
Microscopic Photos - Nikon Small World | Alison Pollack | Dr. Amy Engevik | Dr. Bernardo Cesare |
Dr. Tong Zhang & Dr. Paul Stoodley | Jason Kirk & Carlos P. Flores Suarez |
Martin Kaae Kristiansen | Paula Diaz | Sergii Dymchenko | Jason Kirk

Fishing Nets Recycled into Skateboards

Bureo Inc.
Costa del Mar
Patagonia Works

Reintroducing Jaguars into Argentina

Boston Dynamics
Fundación Rewilding Argentina
Parques Nacionales Argentina

How Can We Fight Plastic Pollution?

EPFL
Jamani Caillet
Plastic Clearing Boats
Yusuke Shigeta
Culture Gate to Japan

Would You Travel to Space?

Little Fireface Project
Virgin Galactic
The Plasticity Lab

Would You Eat Shape-Shifting Pasta?

University College London
Justdiggit
Shape-Shifting Pasta

Cameras for Wandering Elephants

ZSL
Colchester Zoo
Orbital Assembly Corporation

Celebrating Funny Images of Wildlife

Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2019
- Abu-Galy, Queen of Smile (kingfisher)
- Andre Erlich, Pair Ice Skating (penguins)
- Andy Harris, Sea Otter Tickle Fight
- Barry Chapman, Waving Polar Bear Cub
- Bob Riach, The Photographer at Work (squirrels)
- David Steeves, Diva Duck
- Eric Fisher, The Bear Necessities
- Hasan Baglar, Show-Time (praying mantises)
- Mike Rowe, Deer...What Deer?
- Nicola Beyfus, Dad tells off the Kids (sea lions)
- Robert Palmer, Burrowing Owlets
- Roie Galitz, Space-Man (snow monkey)

Giraffes Inherit Their Spots

Lee DE, Cavener DR, Bond ML. (2018) Seeing spots: quantifying
mother-offspring similarity and assessing fitness consequences
of coat pattern traits in a wild population of giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis)
PeerJ 6:e5690 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5690

A Tiger Boom in Nepal

Kyxz Mendiola

Meet the Caterpillars Eating Plastic

NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Mountains in the Deep: Exploring the Central Pacific Basin
Kitty Hawk Corporation
Kazuya Saito, Shuhei Nomura, Shuhei Yamamoto, Ryuma Niyama, and Yoji Okabe

Scientists Study Whales in Antarctica

Florida Keys News Bureau
MAXCOMM
IMAS (Institute for Marine