A Solstice of the Soul by Dennis Overbye
For his next trick, your cosmic correspondent for the past quarter-century will (try to) retire. Published: December 20, […]
Science
A ‘Second Tree of Life’ Could Wreak Havoc, Scientists Warn ...
Research on so-called mirror cells, which defy fundamental properties of living organisms, should be prohibited as too dangerous, […]
It’s Time to Talk About Pornography, Scholars Say by Matt ...
More adolescents than ever are watching it. What’s needed, researchers say, are frank conversations and “porn literacy.” Published: […]
120 Miles of Russian Forest Couldn’t Keep These Two Tigers ...
Boris and Svetlaya were raised together as orphaned cubs, and then reintroduced to the wild separately. But Boris […]
When They Hear Plants Crying, Moths Make a Decision by ...
A new study suggests that the insects rely on the sounds made by distressed vegetation to guide important […]
Google Introduces A.I. Agent That Aces 15-Day Weather Forecasts by ...
GenCast, from the company’s DeepMind division, outperformed the world’s best predictions of deadly storms as well as everyday […]
A Stray Dog Climbed an Egyptian Pyramid. Along Came a ...
A video of a dog on a pyramid took off on social media — but only after it […]
Hundreds More Nazca Lines Emerge in Peru’s Desert by Franz ...
With drones and A.I., researchers managed to double the number of mysterious geoglyphs in a matter of months. […]
SpaceX Starship Launch Ends With a Dramatic Water Landing by ...
President-elect Donald J. Trump joined Elon Musk, as his company’s prototype moon and Mars rocket carried out a […]
Uranus Might Have Experienced a Freak Event When Voyager 2 ...
Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which […]