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We found: 29 results in all months of 2026

January 01, 2026
The Zooniverse is the world's largest and most popular platform for people-powered research. This research is made possible by volunteers—millions of people around the world who come together to assist professional researchers. Our goal is to enable research that would not be possible or practical otherwise. Zooniverse research results in new discoveries, datasets useful to the wider research community, and many publications.
January 02, 2026
"What follows is a list of 50 common New Year's resolutions with a piece of advice and plenty of links to useful articles that deal with the issue in greater detail. If you are looking for effective ways of changing your life for the better, then you'll be sure to find tons of useful information here."
January 03, 2026
Congress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information, maintained by the Library of Congress using data from the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. Search and find present and future legislation work product.
January 04, 2026
This handy tool makes it easier to figure out what time it will be in other timezones around the world when it will be a certain time in your own timezone. It allows you to compare multiple timezones at once to make it easier to plan meetings with a group of globally distributed attendees.
January 05, 2026
NASA's gateway for search and discovery of Earth science data. Earthdata Search provides sub-second searches through more than 119 petabytes (PB) of Earth observation data in NASA's archive. With Earthdata Search you can discover through, search, comparison, visualization of data from NASA.
January 06, 2026
In a world that is often full of surprises, did you expect President Trump to market a perfume as a sitting president? What about the breakup of the DOGE bromance between Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy? Or a step away from minimalism and an embrace of tchotchkes? We did. So what does 2026 have in store for us? We asked a group of reporters and editors to get out their crystal balls to find out.
January 07, 2026
A Weekly Influenza Surveillance Report Prepared by the Influenza Division
January 08, 2026
Are you a super-recogniser? Take our challenging test to find out if you are one of a small proportion of people with exceptional abilities in identifying faces.
January 09, 2026
"With a team of dedicated engineers, Google is building tools that make it simple to tell the stories of our diverse cultural heritage and make them accessible worldwide."
January 10, 2026
The Global Nuclear Power Tracker (GNPT) is a worldwide dataset of nuclear power facilities. The GNPT catalogs every nuclear power plant, including how much power each of them generate, as well as regional and global totals.
January 11, 2026
Tune Into Forests From Around The World. Escape, Relax & Preserve.
January 12, 2026
Welcome to a community that loves baking just as much as you do.
January 13, 2026
Listed here, grouped according to our top investigative priorities and related categories, are many of our famous and most significant cases over the past century. The monographs and write-ups below have been made available for your use.
January 14, 2026
The Mars Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting human exploration and settlement of Mars through research, education, advocacy, and analog-mission projects.
January 15, 2026
The Supreme Court Database is the definitive source for researchers, students, journalists, and citizens interested in the U.S. Supreme Court. The Database contains over two hundred pieces of information about each case decided by the Court between the 1791 and 2024 terms.
January 16, 2026
MIT pioneered the "Open Course" movement by making the actual materials from virtually all of its courses available online for free. This isn't just a summary; it includes syllabi, lecture notes, and often video recordings of the lectures themselves, covering everything from nuclear physics to the philosophy of mind.
January 17, 2026
PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)
January 18, 2026
As we do every year, we’ve gathered data around some of the most pivotal news stories of 2025, including President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the changing U.S. immigration landscape and the rapid rise of artificial intelligence worldwide. Here’s a look back at 2025 through 12 of Pew Research Center’s most striking research findings. This is just a small slice of the Center’s research publications this year.
January 19, 2026
Where do you want to escape to? Choose a channel and let your mind wander with slow TV and ambient videos handpicked just for you. Relax with natural images and sounds while you work. Put them on your TV or even invite your friends to watch together.
January 20, 2026
Maps of 85 different regions of the world to search and explore. Most are downloadable in JPEG format and may be printed as full page maps.
January 21, 2026
Use Sleeptyme to calculate the ideal time to go to sleep to get the ideal amount of sleep on REM cycles.
January 22, 2026
Play daily natural color image sequences of Earth from the EPIC camera onboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft.
January 23, 2026
The Constitution of the United States is only 4,543 words—7,762 if you count the Amendments—and originally fit on just four large sheets of paper. It packs a wallop. Not only is it the oldest written national constitution in the world, it's arguably the most influential in the world, too.
January 24, 2026
Sometimes a small purchase can make a huge impact on your life. Below are 75 affordable purchases that have the potential to improve your life in some way.
January 25, 2026
We go through life thinking we’ve rested because we have gotten enough sleep — but in reality we are missing out on the other types of rest we desperately need. The result is a culture of high-achieving, high-producing, chronically tired and chronically burned-out individuals. We’re suffering from a rest deficit because we don’t understand the true power of rest.
January 26, 2026
These strange, funny, and downright odd collections will break up that long stretch of driving.
January 27, 2026
Do you wonder which species of bird it is that you keep seeing on your backyard fence? Are you curious about what butterflies are visiting your garden? Would you like to know more about the mammals that call your local park home? Thankfully there are plenty of smartphone apps that help you quickly and easily identify flora and fauna, record your findings and learn more about them. Not only that, but a few will even turn you into a citizen scientist!
January 28, 2026
The Library Map is a map with more than 100,000 books on it based on their relevance and similarity. Color is also applied based on the genre and topics of each book.
January 29, 2026
Numbr is a currency calculator combined with a notepad. You can use notes with numbers alongside each other. All of your numbers are instantly recalculated as you type.





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