After a Comeback, New Challenges for Yellowstone’s Grizzly Bears
By JIM ROBBINS Being “delisted” as threatened under the Endangered Species Act could subject a larger bear population […]
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What Is Alzheimer’s Disease?
By PAM BELLUCK Here are answers to some common questions about a disease that can seem frightening, mysterious […]
The Curious Case of the Caspian Sea’s Scars
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR A NASA oceanographer saw what appeared to be a scraped seafloor on satellite images […]
Peacocks Don’t Just Show Their Feathers, They Rattle Them
By JAMES GORMAN Researchers studied the physics of how peacocks shake their tail feathers and found they resonate […]
Lizards, Too, May Sleep in Stages
By ERICA GOODE The bearded dragon shows stages of sleep similar to those in humans and other mammals, […]
This Is Your Brain on Podcasts
By BENEDICT CAREY Different people’s brains absorb a compelling story in the roughly the same complicated pattern, using […]
SpaceX Says It Plans to Send a Probe to Mars
By KENNETH CHANG Elon Musk’s company said it would dispatch its Dragon vessel to the planet, possibly as […]
Should You Hug Your Dog?
By CHRISTINE HAUSER A psychology professor’s suggestion some dogs may feel distressed by being hugged ricocheted across social […]
Texting and Driving? Watch Out for the Textalyzer
By MATT RICHTEL Policy makers and road safety experts are reaching back to tested strategies: They want to […]
Wait, What’s That Noise? Cicadas, the New Batch, to Sound ...
By CHRISTOPHER MELE Everything you need to know about the insects set to ascend from the ground after […]