The Forbidden Planet That Escaped a Fiery Doom by Becky ...
The giant world Halla should have been swallowed by its star long ago. Scientists now think they know […]
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The Terror of Threes in the Heavens and on Earth ...
Physicists have long explored how phenomena in groups of three can sow chaos. A new three-body problem, they […]
John B. Goodenough 100 Dies; Nobel-Winning Creator of the Lithium-Ion ...
An unassuming professor who remained active into his 90s, he is credited with the breakthrough that gave rise […]
New Study Bolsters Room-Temperature Superconductor Claim by Kenneth Chang
A team of researchers verified a key measurement from a study earlier this year that had faced doubts […]
The director and deep-sea explorer James Cameron points to flaws ...
The “Titanic” director and diving expert said he’d had concerns from the start about the vehicle’s hull composition […]
The Secret in the Spots on Monarch Butterflies Wings by ...
The wings of monarchs that survive a 2,000-mile-long migration tend to be spottier, suggesting that feature may aid […]
Three decades ago a reporter took a plunge into wonder ...
A dive in Alvin, a three-person submersible, revealed not only an alien world but why people engage in […]
Scalpel, Forceps, Bone Drill: Modern Medicine in Ancient Rome by ...
A 2,000-year-old collection of medical tools, recently unearthed in Hungary, offer insight into the practices of undaunted, much-maligned […]
Cosmic Luck: NASA’s Apollo 11 Moon Quarantine Broke Down by ...
A review of archives suggests that efforts to protect Earth from contamination by any organism brought back from […]
Scientists Discover a Virgin Birth in a Crocodile by Veronique ...
The act of reptile reproduction suggests that dinosaurs and pterosaurs may have been capable of parthenogenesis, too, much […]