A Cloud Atlas Provides Clues to Life on Earth
By JOANNA KLEIN Data from satellite photos of cloud cover allowed researchers to better predict the location of […]
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Lucid Dreaming
Is this the real world? Or is it just fantasy? The truth started with a dream — a […]
You Could Actually Snooze Your Way Through an Asteroid Belt
By KENNETH CHANG A crucial tension-creating plot point in many a movie and video game is based on […]
Book Review: ‘The Finest Traditions of My Calling’
By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D. In his self-described “search for the renewal of medicine,” Dr. Abraham Nussbaum offers an […]
NASA Is Facing a Climate Change Countdown
By JOHN SCHWARTZ Kennedy Space Center and other NASA facilities near coastlines are facing the prospect of continually […]
To Beat Go Champion, Google’s Program Needed a Human Army
By GEORGE JOHNSON Without the multitude of minds that created a program capable of beating a Go game […]
Why Some Societies Practiced Ritual Human Sacrifice
By TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG The killing of some lower-status members helped set up and maintain social strata and helped […]
Close up of the Bubble Nebula
It’s the bubble versus the cloud. NGC 7635, the Bubble Nebula, is being pushed out by the stellar […]
Harold Morowitz, Biophysicist Who Tackled Enigmas Big and Small, Dies ...
By SAM ROBERTS Trained in philosophy and physics, no topic was too trivial for Professor Morowitz to tease […]
Pluto s Bladed Terrain in 3D
Get out your red/blue glasses and gaze across a mountainous region informally known as Tartarus Dorsa. This scene […]