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Globe at Night is a citizen science project aimed at studying light pollution. (Credit: Emily Maletz)

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Now you can borrow science equipment from local libraries and help researchers advance science, like by measuring light in the night skies in your community. 

Help Fight Light Pollution With a Science Experiment From Your Local Library

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From humble beginnings to our complex modern minds, the story of how our brains developed through time might surprise you. A hint: It involves eating.

Why Did We Evolve Brains in the First Place?

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Asteroid strikes, supernovae blasts and other calamities could take out humanity. But no matter what, a cataclysmic event 1 billion years from now will rob the planet of oxygen, wiping out life.

How Will Life on Earth End?

The mysterious object ‘Oumuamua passed through our solar system in 2017. Loeb has suggested it could have been sent by extraterrestrials.
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Some astronomers hypothesize that asteroids and comes might shuttle biological matter between planets.

Did Life on Earth Come From Outer Space?

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Many libraries are helping people get involved in scientific research that addresses local concerns and informs decision-making.

Libraries are Quickly Becoming Community Hubs for Citizen Science 

In this photograph captured by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station on July 31, 2011, the oblique angle reveals the layers of Earth's atmosphere, along with a thin crescent Moon illuminated by the Sun sitting below the horizon. (Credit: NASA Earth Observatory)

Earth Atmosphere - NASA

Earth ends and outer space starts at the Kármán line, some 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the planet’s surface.

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