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 […]
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Another Month, Another Global Heat Record Broken _ by Far
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Earth dialed the heat up in June, smashing warm temperature records for both the […]
Book Review: Taking on ‘The Vital Question’ About Life
By TIM REQUARTH The biochemist Nick Lane offers an eloquent suite of answers about evolution, looking deeper than […]
SpaceX Says 2-Foot Strut Snapped, Brought Down Rocket
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SpaceX suspects a 2-foot steel strut snapped inside its rocket and led to last […]
Scientists Say Comet Lander May Have Shifted Position
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Scientists say the Philae spacecraft that landed on a comet last year may have […]
Failure of One Metal Strut Seemed to Doom SpaceX Falcon ...
By KENNETH CHANG Elon Musk, SpaceX’s chief executive, said a preliminary inquiry pointed to the failure of a […]
A Machine in the Co-Pilot’s Seat
By JOHN MARKOFF A flight project called Alias is generating robots that would not replace human pilots, but […]
New Tomb for Father of Alexander the Great
By SINDYA N. BHANOO Philip II of Macedonia may be buried in a different tomb than was previously […]
Comet PanSTARRS and a Crescent Moon
A comet has brightened quickly and unexpectedly. Discovered last year, Comet C/2014 Q1 (PanSTARRS) is expected to be […]
Playing Mozart’s Piano Pieces as Mozart Did
By RACHEL NUWER A music scholar plays classical piano pieces with techniques that 19th-century performers learned, producing a […]