Empirical Evidence: Cats Love People
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR Given a choice between human affection, toys and food, the felines sometimes chose people. Published: […]
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Come On In. The Water’s Fine (Mostly).
By STEPH YIN Chemists calculated how much urine is in swimming pools by measuring the presence of a […]
Cooling Neutron Star
The bright source near the center is a neutron star, the incredibly dense, collapsed remains of a massive […]
Cassini Looks Out from Saturn
This is what Saturn looks like from inside the rings. Last week, for the first time, NASA directed […]
Arches of Spring
Two luminous arches stretched across the dome of the sky on this northern spring night. After sunset on […]
If Mars Is Colonized, We May Not Need to Ship ...
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR A new study suggests the material humanity needs to one day construct structures on […]
6 Bots That Deliver Science and Serendipity on Twitter
By STEPH YIN Not all bots on Twitter are out to spam, hack or misinform you. These science-themed […]
Gary Steigman, Who Teased Out the Universe’s Dark Secrets, Dies ...
By DENNIS OVERBYE Dr. Steigman helped show that most matter in the universe was not made of atoms, […]
Dr. Joseph Lifschutz, Who Asserted Confidentiality Right for Therapists, Dies ...
By SAM ROBERTS Dr. Lifschutz spent a weekend in jail in 1969 defending his position that a privilege […]
Exploring the Antennae
Some 60 million light-years away in the southerly constellation Corvus, two large galaxies are colliding. Stars in the […]