Some Hunter-Gatherers Had a Taste for Tortoises, Study Says
By SINDYA N. BHANOO In a cave near Tel Aviv, researchers found evidence of what the inhabitants ate […]
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Studying the Heart of El Niño, Where Its Weather Begins
By HENRY FOUNTAIN Over the Pacific, researchers dropped instrument packages in hope of better forecasting the effects of […]
Women’s Views on Women Who Are Ovulating
By SINDYA N. BHANOO In a study, women with higher estrogen levels found images of ovulating women to […]
At Museum of Mathematics, Meet 2 Beavers That’ll Never Meet
By KENNETH CHANG The museum’s newest exhibit uses beavers, train tracks and spinning turntables to illustrate a theorem. […]
Find the Man in the Moon
Have you ever seen the Man on the Moon? This common question plays on the ability of humans […]
The Venus Flytrap, a Plant That Can Count
By JAMES GORMAN By wiring up the insect-eating plant, scientists found that it counted the electrical impulses that […]
Does a Crack in a Carrot Spell Ruin for the ...
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY Growth cracks can originate during the growth period from uneven moisture. As to the […]
MWC 922: The Red Square Nebula
What could cause a nebula to appear square? No one is quite sure. The hot star system known […]
A Five Planet Dawn
As January closes and in the coming days of February, early morning risers can spot the five naked-eye […]
Hidden Galaxy IC 342
Similar in size to large, bright spiral galaxies in our neighborhood, IC 342 is a mere 10 million […]