New Dinosaur and T. Rex Were Brothers in Tiny Arms
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR Gualicho shinyae was found to have evolved its stubby arms independently, suggesting there was […]
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After 300 Years of Collecting, Nearly 12,000 Amazon Tree Species ...
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR Researchers analyzed hundreds of thousands of samples in digitized museum collections to produce an […]
Chasing Juno
Wait for me! In 2011, NASA’s robotic mission Juno launched for Jupiter from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA. Last […]
Juno Sends First Image Back While Orbiting Jupiter
By KENNETH CHANG NASA released the first photograph taken from its space probe since its camera was turned […]
Tiny Coral on the Seafloor, Ready for Its Close-Up
By JAMES GORMAN Researchers built the first microscope that can be used to see, in a natural state, […]
Police Try to Lower Racial Bias, but Under Pressure, It ...
By BENEDICT CAREY and ERICA GOODE Whether bias-reduction programs can lead to lasting change in policing is an […]
Aurorae on Jupiter
Jupiter has aurorae. Like Earth, the magnetic field of the gas giant funnels charged particles released from the […]
Lyme Disease Only Sounds Recent
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY The tick-borne bacteria that cause the symptoms were identified in 1981, but may have […]
How Square Watermelons Get Their Shape and Other G.M.O. Misconceptions
By AMY HARMON As early as this week, the House is expected to vote on a bill that […]
A Curb Is Repaired, and a Seismic Marker Is Lost
By STEPH YIN When city workers in Hayward, Calif., replaced a disjointed sidewalk curb, they eliminated a visible […]