No Longer Missing: Rosetta’s Philae Spacecraft Located on Comet
By DANIEL VICTOR Scientists have found the space lander, which disappeared in 2014 after a rough landing on […]
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Roger Y. Tsien, Nobel Winner for Use of Glowing Proteins, ...
By KENNETH CHANG The biochemist at the University of California, San Diego, transformed a green fluorescent protein from […]
More Bad News for Africa’s Elephants: A Super-Slow Reproduction Rate
By RACHEL NUWER Even if all poaching ceased immediately, researchers calculate that it would take 90 years for […]
NASA Adds to Evidence of Mysterious Ancient Earthworks
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL Satellite photographs from 430 miles above Kazakhstan reveal colossal geometric figures that remain puzzling and […]
A Sharp Increase In “Sunny Day” Flooding
By JONATHAN CORUM Global warming and rising seas are increasing the amount of tidal flooding on the Atlantic […]
Flooding of Coast, Caused by Global Warming, Has Already Begun
By JUSTIN GILLIS Scientists’ warnings that the rise of the sea would eventually imperil the United States’ coastline […]
New Hope for Tasmanian Devils in Fight Against Contagious Cancer
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR Scientists believe that genetic variation in some animals that may make them resistant to cancer. […]
Little Planet Astro Camp
Day and night on this little planet look a lot like day and night on planet Earth. In […]
Juno Offers New Look at Jupiter’s North Pole
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR NASA released new pictures taken by the spacecraft’s camera as it finished its first […]
SpaceX Rocket Explodes at Launchpad in Cape Canaveral
By KENNETH CHANG and MIKE ISAAC The fiery blast also destroyed a satellite that Facebook had planned to […]