Papal Encyclical Heartens Proponents of Fossil-Fuel Divestment
By JOHN SCHWARTZ By addressing the threat of climate change so forcefully, Pope Francis is likely to add […]
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Agencies, Hoping to Deflect Comets and Asteroids, Step Up Earth ...
By WILLIAM J. BROAD The goal is to learn how to better deflect comets and asteroids that might […]
New DNA Results Show Kennewick Man Was Native American
By CARL ZIMMER A new analysis, published in Nature, refutes the theory that the 8,500-year-old skeleton was a […]
Pope Francis Aligns Himself With Mainstream Science on Climate
By JUSTIN GILLIS If anything, environmental scientists say, the pope may have bent over backward to offer a […]
Europe’s Philae Comet Lander May Soon Begin Experiments
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS European scientists are confident they’ll soon be able to start experiments on the surface […]
Study: A Third of Global Groundwater Basins Are Overstressed
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Satellite data show people are overdrawing water from some of the world’s largest groundwater […]
Astronomers Report Finding Earliest Stars That Enriched Cosmos
By DENNIS OVERBYE A team of scientists says a recently discovered galaxy, known as CR7, holds the signature […]
Pluto Just 4 Weeks, 20 Million Miles Away for Spacecraft
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto’s doorstep, following an incredible journey of nine […]
Review: ‘The Last Beach’ and ‘The Narrow Edge’ Share Tales ...
By CORNELIA DEAN Two recent books take a grim look at what may happen to coastlines and their […]
Is the U.S. Starting to Turn the Corner on Urban ...
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Once the signature of an era of pell-mell development, American sprawl has slowed to […]