The Horsehead Nebula
The Horsehead Nebula is one of the most famous nebulae on the sky. It is visible as the […]
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Understanding El Niño
By JONAH BROMWICH Some questions and answers about the meteorological phenomenon named for Jesus Christ. The 2015 El […]
Climate Advocates See Need for Continued Activism
By JOHN SCHWARTZ Environmental groups say the focus will shift, and a push for institutional divestment of fossil […]
San Diego Vows to Move Entirely to Renewable Energy in ...
By MATT RICHTEL With an ordinance passed on Tuesday, San Diego became the largest American city to make […]
Colorful Arcs over Buenos Aires
What are those colorful arcs in the sky? Like rainbows that are caused by rain, arcs of sunlight […]
Physicists in Europe Find Tantalizing Hints of a Mysterious New ...
By DENNIS OVERBYE Two teams find anomalies in data from the Large Hadron Collider at Cern, the European […]
Life on ‘Mars’ by Way of Hawaii: Q. and A.
By KATIE ROGERS Six researchers are living for a year in a NASA habitat that simulates the red […]
Some Prairie Voles Play the Field, Researchers Find
By SINDYA N. BHANOO The small rodents are famously monogamous — but not all of them. Nonmonogamy seems […]
Jan. 2, 1966: When Airbags Were More Science Fiction Than ...
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR An article about auto safety cited “an air-bag arrangement that would rapidly expand and hold […]
Evelyn Witkin and the Road to DNA Enlightenment
By CLAUDIA DREIFUS A legendary geneticist reflects on the earliest days of a new science and her groundbreaking […]