Topic
Science
The observatory photographs a comet three nights running
A visitor from the outer system, brightest just before dawn, and the plates are open to anyone who asks.
Beekeepers report a good spring
Colony losses at their lowest in four years, and the association puts it down to the late frost that never came.
The weather station goes back to two balloons a day
Interrupted for two years, the launches resume at six in the morning and six at night.
The survey photographs the glacier for the sixtieth year
From the same rock, at the same hour: one and a quarter kilometres of ice have gone since 1961.
The winter count finds the largest flock in ten years
Forty thousand geese on the wetland, and the water held higher than usual since March.
The laboratory opens its doors for one afternoon
Three hundred visitors, eleven microscopes, and a queue that formed before the door did.