A Desert Eclipse
A good place to see a ring-of-fire eclipse, it seemed, would be from a desert. In a desert, […]
Science
Ronald Melzack, Cartographer of Pain, Is Dead at 90 by ...
The theory that he and a colleague devised deepened medicine’s understanding of pain and how it is best […]
Seeking a New Lens to Study Same-Sex Behavior in Animals ...
A team of researchers say that science has relied on a human heterosexual baseline and made faulty assumptions […]
Stars and Dust in Corona Australis
Cosmic dust clouds and young, energetic stars inhabit this telescopic vista, less than 500 light-years away toward the […]
Vera Rubin Gets a Telescope of Her Own by DENNIS ...
The astronomer missed her Nobel Prize. But she now has a whole new observatory to her name. Published: […]
How’s Your Internship Going? This Teen Found a Planet by ...
Wolf Cukier, 17, was analyzing brightness of stars during an internship with NASA last year when he made […]
NGC 602 and Beyond
Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies 5 […]
Fossil Reveals Earth’s Oldest Known Animal Guts by LUCAS JOEL
The find in a Nevada desert revealed an intestine inside a creature that looks like a worm made […]
Volcanoes on Venus Might Still Be Smoking by SHANNON HALL
Planetary science experiments on Earth suggest that the sun’s second planet might have ongoing volcanic activity. Published: January […]
Second U.S. Baby to Be Born From a Dead Donor’s ...
Researchers at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia said the procedure could pave a new path to parenthood for women […]