Scientists Find Closest Thing Yet to Earth-Sun Twin System
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Scientists have identified a “close cousin” to Earth that’s orbiting a sun-like star and […]
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Honeybees Show Evidence of Insecticide
By SINDYA N. BHANOO More than 70 percent of pollen and honey samples collected in Massachusetts contained neonicotinoid, […]
Comet PanSTARRS, Moon, and Venus
It is the object to the left of the big tree that’s generating much recent excitement. If you […]
Kepler’s Tally of Planets
By Unknown Author NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered more than 1,000 confirmed planets orbiting distant stars. Published: July […]
Laying Eggs of Just the Right Hue
By SINDYA N. BHANOO Female stink bugs assess the surface on which they are laying their eggs, and […]
Kepler Data Reveals What Might Be Best ‘Goldilocks’ Planet Yet
By DENNIS OVERBYE NASA astronomers announced the discovery of Kepler 452b, which is 1,400 light-years away and orbits […]
Paul Gebhard, Sex Researcher Who Worked With Kinsey, Dies at ...
By SAM ROBERTS Dr. Gebhard, who trained as an anthropologist, wrote the groundbreaking “Sexual Behavior in the Human […]
Study: DNA Reveals New Wrinkle About Settlement of Americas
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Scientists have discovered a previously unknown source of ancestry for some native peoples in […]
Comet Tails and Star Trails
After grazing the western horizon on northern summer evenings Comet PanSTARRS (also known as C/2014 Q1) climbed higher […]
Tracing Routes to America Through DNA, Both Ancient and New
By JAMES GORMAN Two papers agree that some people in the Brazilian Amazon are distant relations of indigenous […]