Taking Down Dams and Letting the Fish Flow
By MURRAY CARPENTER On the Penobscot in Maine and other rivers in the U.S., several endangered species are […]
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For Gordon Hamilton, a Life of Discovery and Danger
By JUSTIN GILLIS Dr. Hamilton, who was killed in Antarctica over the weekend, studied glaciers with our future […]
Why Big Liars Often Start Out as Small Ones
By ERICA GOODE Researchers found that the brain may become desensitized to dishonesty, perhaps explaining why lying can […]
A Wider-Eyed Watchdog of the Clutter Surrounding Earth
By DENNIS OVERBYE A new telescope that will be operated by the Air Force could change the way […]
Gordon Hamilton, Climate Scientist, Dies in Accident in Antarctica
By NIRAJ CHOKSHI The 50-year-old University of Maine researcher, who was studying changes in sea levels, died when […]
Eagle Aurora over Norway
What’s that in the sky? An aurora. A large coronal mass ejection occurred on our Sun five days […]
Cerro Tololo Trails
Early one moonlit evening car lights left a wandering trail along the road to the Chilean Cerro Tololo […]
Studying the Building Blocks of Life in Stereo Sound
By JOANNA KLEIN To make it easier to sift through data on proteins, a composer and a biologist […]
Full Moon in Mountain Shadow
On October 15, standing near the summit of Hawaii’s Mauna Kea and looking away from a gorgeous sunset […]
Dark Spot in Mars Photo Is Probably Wreckage of European ...
By KENNETH CHANG The remnants of the Schiaparelli lander seemed to appear on Mars in photos taken by […]