Perseid Fireball at Sunset Crater
On the night of August 12, this bright Perseid meteor flashed above volcanic Sunset Crater National Monument, Arizona, […]
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Bird Song Found to Somehow Protect Babies From High Temperatures
By STEPH YIN Their parents sing for Australian finches when they are about to hatch, and it somehow […]
Meet Luca, the Ancestor of All Living Things
By NICHOLAS WADE A single-cell, bacterium-like organism clinging to volcanic sea vents may have been the forebear of […]
Pregnant Women Advised to Avoid Travel to Active Zika Zone ...
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ and PAM BELLUCK Federal health officials issued a broad advisory after Florida identified 5 new […]
At the Bottom of a Whisky Glass, a Beautiful Experiment
By KENNETH CHANG What does whisky leave you, other than tipsy? An interesting pattern of evaporation, if you […]
Debate Over Trump’s Fitness Raises Issue of Checks on Nuclear ...
By WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID E. SANGER There are no checks on a president’s power to wage […]
Exxon Mobil Fraud Inquiry Said to Focus More on Future ...
By JOHN SCHWARTZ Eric T. Schneiderman of New York said the investigation was concentrating on issues like the […]
Perseid Night at Yosemite
The 2016 Perseid meteor shower performed well on the night of August 11/12. The sky on that memorable […]
New Cluster of Zika Cases Is Reported in Miami Beach
By PAM BELLUCK and LIZETTE ALVAREZ A health official confirmed that the newly identified infections were contracted through […]
What Your Brain Looks Like When It Solves a Math ...
By BENEDICT CAREY Researchers demonstrated a method for reconstructing how the brain moves from understanding a problem to […]