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Alaskan Moondogs
What’s happened to the sky? Moonlight illuminates a snowy scene in this night land and skyscape made on […]
Randall Munroe, XKCD Creator, Goes Back to High School
By KENNETH CHANG Some pages in coming science textbooks will explain elevators as “lifting rooms” and the circulatory […]
Parrots Are a Lot More Than ‘Pretty Bird’
By NATALIE ANGIER Out of the cage, they speak their own language, make tools, and wreak havoc on […]
What Spring Looks Like from Space
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR An image from the Meteosat-9 satellite shows Earth on the vernal equinox, the official […]
Amid a Graying Fleet of Nuclear Plants, a Hunt for ...
By HENRY FOUNTAIN To avoid a shortage of generating capacity in coming decades, the industry is looking at […]
Empathy May Be Overrated in an Election, and in a ...
By JOHN TIERNEY It’s not clear that the trait matters much to voters, and some social scientists argue […]
A Picturesque Equinox Sunset
What’s that at the end of the road? The Sun. Many towns have roads that run east – […]
El Niño Upsets Seasons and Upends Lives Worldwide
By HENRY FOUNTAIN The World Health Organization has estimated that changes related to the weather phenomenon are putting […]
Beyond Record Hot, February Was ‘Astronomical’ and ‘Strange’
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Earth got so hot last month that federal scientists struggled to find words, describing […]