New Dinosaur Species That Lived Above Arctic Circle Discovered
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR A duck-billed plant eater that lived 69 million years ago provides further evidence that a […]
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Super Blood Moon Makes Rare Appearance
By THE NEW YORK TIMES A rare astronomical phenomenon produced a moon that appeared slightly bigger than usual […]
Costa Rica to Shield Sea Turtles
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR Weeks after tourists disrupted the nesting of thousands of olive ridley sea turtles, the […]
M31 versus M33
Separated by about 14 degrees (28 Full Moons) in planet Earth’s sky, spiral galaxies M31 at left, and […]
Pluto’s Snakeskin Terrain
A mountainous region informally known as Tartarus Dorsa sprawls some 530 kilometers (330 miles) across this Plutonian landscape. […]
The World Heard by Hominins
By SINDYA N. BHANOO These human ancestors didn’t hear as well as modern humans — with one exception […]
Super Blood Moon to Make Last Appearance Until 2033
By DANIEL VICTOR The moon will appear larger than usual and will take on a reddish hue in […]
Study: Global Warming, Evolution Are Clipping Bees’ Tongues
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Global warming and evolution are reshaping the bodies of some American bumblebees, a new […]
LDN 988 and Friends
Stars are forming in dark, dusty molecular cloud LDN 988. Seen near picture center some 2,000 light-years distant, […]
That Stinky Cheese Is a Result of Evolutionary Overdrive
By CARL ZIMMER Biologists studying molds used in cheese-making found that they have acquired large amounts of DNA […]