Eric Betzig’s Life Over the Microscope
By CLAUDIA DREIFUS Dr. Betzig was one of three scientists given the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014 […]
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NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Has Next Mission After Pluto
By KENNETH CHANG The spacecraft will visit 2014 MU69, another piece of the frigid debris beyond Neptune along […]
Puppis A Supernova Remnant
Driven by the explosion of a massive star, supernova remnant Puppis A is blasting into the surrounding interstellar […]
Psychologists Welcome Analysis Casting Doubt on Their Work
By BENEDICT CAREY To some, the news that most studies do not hold up when retested came as […]
Three Popular Psychology Studies That Didn’t Hold Up
By BENEDICT CAREY and MICHAEL ROSTON Researchers re-did 100 published psychology studies, and many did not check out. […]
NASA’s Next Horizon in Space
By MICHAEL ROSTON Since New Horizons beamed back photos of Pluto, the question has loomed: What’s next? More […]
Regenerative Medicine Researcher Cleared of Scientific Misconduct Charges
By HENRY FOUNTAIN The allegations, brought by colleagues, related to three patients on whom Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, a […]
A Twist to How a Túngara Frog Finds Her Prince
By SINDYA N. BHANOO Given a choice of two males, a female will pick the most attractive. But, […]
A Home’s Story, Told in Dust, Bacteria and Fungi
By SINDYA N. BHANOO An analysis of dust from 1,200 homes across the continental United States provides new […]
The Large Cloud of Magellan
The 16th century Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan and his crew had plenty of time to study the southern […]