Finding Degas’s Lost Portrait With a Particle Accelerator
By STEPH YIN Australian researchers have used X-ray fluorescence to reconstruct a hidden portrait under one of Degas’s […]
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Scientific Evidence of Flood May Give Credence to Legend of ...
By NICHOLAS WADE Historians have long wondered whether the Great Flood was a myth, but archaeologists and geologists […]
How Lowering Crime Could Contribute to Global Warming
By TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG The rebound effect describes changes that inadvertently raise carbon emissions. A recent study illustrated one […]
Florida Company Gets Approval to Put Robotic Lander on Moon
By KENNETH CHANG If accomplished, that feat would win the company, Moon Express, the Google Lunar X Prize […]
Where Are All the Fireflies?
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY A Brooklynite used to see so many in the garden, and wonders whether they’re […]
Looking, Quickly, for the Fingerprints of Climate Change
By HENRY FOUNTAIN Rapid-response teams of researchers analyze droughts and other extreme weather events to see if global […]
A Homecoming for Hellbenders, the Biggest Salamanders in North America
By JOANNA KLEIN To try to restore their population, conservationists will release hundreds of the salamanders, which have […]
Scientists Ponder an Evolutionary Mystery: The Female Orgasm
By CARL ZIMMER Two evolutionary biologists have offered a new way of thinking about the experience based on […]
Island’s Mammoths May Have Been Thirsty at Their Extinction
By TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG Mammoths on Alaska’s St. Paul Island could have faced freshwater problems that could be experienced […]
John Kerr, Chronicler of Freud-Jung Rift, Is Dead at 66
By BENEDICT CAREY Mr. Kerr wrote a book about the theorists’ feud, which became the basis for a […]