Is Space Junk Creating Earth’s Own Ring?
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY From a certain point of view, all that stuff does look like a ring. […]
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Edward Humes on How Transportation Overkill Is Killing Us
By CLAUDIA DREIFUS The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author examines the wastefulness, in more ways than one, of […]
Lasker Awards Given for Work in Physiology, Virology and Science ...
By STEPH YIN This year’s honors speak to the additive nature of scientific research, with prizes recognizing people […]
Philae Lander Found on Comet 67P
A little spacecraft that was presumed lost has now been found. In 2014, the Philae lander slowly descended […]
The New Ghost Snake in Madagascar
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR Scientists discovered Madagoscarophis lolo, a new species of snake, on a rocky plateau in northern […]
Visions of Life on Mars in Earth’s Depths
By KENNETH CHANG Far down in a South African gold mine, scientists are studying tiny life-forms that live […]
August Ties July for Hottest Month on Record
By KAREN WORKMAN The newest record continues a trend that points to 2016 becoming the hottest year since […]
Oceans Are Absorbing Almost All of the Globe’s Excess Heat
By TIM WALLACE This year is on track to be the third consecutive hottest year on record. Where […]
Welcome to Carlisle, the British City With a Climate Change ...
By TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG The city was flooded in 2005, and again four years later. And again in December. […]
All the Water on Planet Earth
How much of planet Earth is made of water? Very little, actually. Although oceans of water cover about […]