The Widening World of Hand-Picked Truths
By GEORGE JOHNSON More than ever, the best available science doesn’t seem to change minds in a civilization […]
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The Inexorable Forces of Nail Growth
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY It’s like the movement of a tectonic plate at the end of your finger, […]
Dione, Rings, Shadows, Saturn
What’s happening in this strange juxtaposition of moon and planet? First and foremost, Saturn’s moon Dione was captured […]
Do You Have Math Anxiety?
By Unknown Author You may not like taking a quiz to measure your math anxiety. But don’t worry. […]
How a Volcanic Eruption in 1815 Darkened the World but ...
By WILLIAM J. BROAD Investigators are still struggling to understand the most powerful eruption in recorded history, which […]
Two Panda Cubs at the National Zoo Present Special Problems
By KATIE ROGERS Raising healthy twins is a unique problem for the zoo’s mother panda: Only two mother […]
Walter Munk, ‘Einstein of the Oceans,’ at 97
By KATE GALBRAITH From forecasting waves in World War II to using ocean sounds to measure climate change, […]
The Truth Behind a Snake’s Deadly Embrace
By JAMES GORMAN Boa constrictors don’t take a victim’s breath away to kill it. A herpetologist and his […]
Giant Cluster Bends Breaks Images
What are those strange blue objects? Many of the brightest blue images are of a single, unusual, beaded, […]
Little Planet Curiosity
A curious robot almost completely straddles this rocky little planet. Of course, the planet is really Mars and […]