Breakthrough Video Contest Seeks Young Scientists
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR The Breakthrough Junior Challenge, a new competition organized by Khan Academy and the Breakthrough […]
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Video Retrieved From GoPro Balloon That Soared to Nearly 100,000 ...
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR Breathtaking footage of the Grand Canyon was retrieved from the camera, found by a […]
A Spiral Aurora over Iceland
What’s happened to the sky? Aurora! Captured late last month, this aurora was noted by Icelanders for its […]
Why Is That Dog Looking at Me?
By JAMES GORMAN The reasoning behind why dogs look at humans — and wolves don’t — is not […]
Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ Rocket Company, to Launch from Florida
By KENNETH CHANG A rocket company founded by Jeffrey P. Bezos, the Amazon chief executive, announced plans to […]
732,000: American Lives Saved by Vaccination
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR A federal agency estimates that the vaccination of children from 1994 to 2013 will prevent […]
Windows on the Deep
By CHRIS DIXON A government laboratory in Hawaii has made important deep-sea discoveries with piloted submersibles. But dwindling […]
Ceres’s Bright Spots of Mystery
By SINDYA N. BHANOO New images captured by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft were the best view to date of […]
Pluto from above Cthulhu Regio
New high resolution images of Pluto are starting to arrive from the outer Solar System. The robotic New […]
Newly Risen From Yeast: THC
By ROXANNE KHAMSI By creating constituents of marijuana, researchers hope to test its worth as a medicine. Published: […]