My Dinosaur’s Jet Lag Helps Explain Why a Time Change ...
By HEATHER MURPHY Glow-in-the dark dinoflagellates illuminate why Daylight Saving Time causes you to spill coffee and fumble […]
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Mars Mission Set to Launch to Study Gases and Storms
By KENNETH CHANG The ExoMars 2016 mission to Mars, a collaboration between the European and Russian space agencies, […]
David M. Gates Dies at 94; Sounded Early Alarm on ...
By SAM ROBERTS Dr. Gates was in the vanguard of scientists who warned early on that fossil fuels, […]
Unearthing an Old Reptilian Relative of Dinosaurs
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR Called Teyujagua paradoxa, or “fierce lizard,” the species was recently discovered in Rio Grande […]
This Week’s Other Solar Eclipse
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR More than 22,000 miles above Earth, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has been getting a […]
How an Amateur Meteorite Hunter Tracked Down a Fireball
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR Since last October, citizen scientists have uncovered fragments from three different fireball sightings using […]
The Hydra Gets a New Mouth With Every Meal
By JOANNA KLEIN Every time a hydra wants to eat, it rips a hole through the center of […]
NASA Reschedules Mars InSight Mission for May 2018
By KENNETH CHANG Problems with the enclosure for a seismic instrument forced a two-year delay, but the mission […]
Views of the Total Solar Eclipse
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR Thousands across the world watched the eclipse on Wednesday, with many capturing captivating images. […]
Unappetizing Experiment Explores Tools’ Role in Humans’ Bigger Brains
By CARL ZIMMER Scientists at Harvard concluded that stone tools that broke down food could have helped early […]