Hans Dehmelt, Nobel Laureate for Isolating Electrons, Dies at 94
By RICHARD SANDOMIR Dr. Dehmelt shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing methods to trap a […]
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Photos of Jupiter From NASA Spacecraft, Both Near and Far
By KENNETH CHANG The Juno space probe and the Hubble Space Telescope recorded new images of Jupiter that […]
A Genetic Oddity May Give Octopuses and Squids Their Smarts
By STEPH YIN Unlike other organisms, coleoid cephalopods make extensive use of RNA editing, which could slow their […]
The Mucus-Shooting Worm-Snail That Turned Up in the Florida Keys
By JOANNA KLEIN While studying an artificial reef made from a sunken ship, researchers found a mollusk that […]
Ancient Cannibals Didn’t Eat Just for the Calories, Study Suggests
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR An archaeologist’s fascination with the nutritional value of humans aims to understand the complexities […]
Jeff Bezos Says He Is Selling $1 Billion a Year ...
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR Standing with a reusable booster and a model of a capsule for carrying humans […]
A Dolphin’s Recipe for Octopus
By JOANNA KLEIN Scientists know that dolphins eat octopus, but until now they had not documented how they […]
Antarctic Ice Reveals Earth’s Accelerating Plant Growth
By CARL ZIMMER Scientists compiling a record of the atmosphere based on air trapped in Antarctic ice found […]
When Britain Split From Europe, in a Big Way
By NICHOLAS WADE Geologists have assembled a picture of the catastrophic destruction, hundreds of thousands of years ago, […]
Bringing Owls Into the Light
By RACHEL NUWER An illustrated natural history book highlights the diversity of the world’s owls, from beloved species […]