Penetrating Storm Walls With 8 Powerful New Eyes
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR NASA has launched eight microsatellites that will help scientists predict hurricanes and tropical storms. […]
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3-D Printing the Young Universe as a Lumpy Softball
By DENNIS OVERBYE Scientists have devised a blueprint for the early universe that can be brought to life […]
A Master Work, the Ghent Altarpiece, Reawakens Stroke by Stroke
By MILAN SCHREUER Restorers painstakingly removed varnish and overpainting from a 15th-century work, after new scanning technology revealed […]
Climate Change News That Stuck With Us in 2016
By THE NEW YORK TIMES Here’s a selection of Times reporters’ most memorable stories of the year, with […]
Polar Bears’ Path to Decline Runs Through Alaskan Village
By ERICA GOODE The bears that come here are climate refugees, on land because the sea ice they […]
The Gooey Details Behind a Glow Worm’s Starry Night Illusions
By JOANNA KLEIN In the Waitomo caves of New Zealand, the insects use bioluminescence and silk threads of […]
Southern Jupiter from Perijove 3
Southern Jupiter looms some 37,000 kilometers away in this JunoCam image from December 11. The image data was […]
Halfdan Mahler, Who Shifted W.H.O.’s Focus to Primary Care, Dies ...
By SEWELL CHAN The director general of the World Health Organization from 1973 to 1988, Dr. Mahler acknowledged […]
Visualizing the Invisible Drivers of Climate Change
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR A new visualization from NASA illustrates the concentration of carbon dioxide around the globe […]
Science News That Stuck With Us in 2016
By THE NEW YORK TIMES Here’s a selection of Science desk reporters’ most memorable stories of the year, […]