Brian Sutton-Smith, Scholar of What’s Fun, Dies at 90
By MARGALIT FOX Professor Sutton-Smith sought to answer fundamental questions: What is play? Why do human beings engage […]
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Return at Sunrise
Thursday, shortly after local sunrise over central Asia, this Soyuz spacecraft floated over a sea of golden clouds […]
Emissions by Makers of Energy Level Off
By JOHN SCHWARTZ Carbon dioxide emissions from the world’s energy producers stalled in 2014, the first time in […]
The Great Wall by Moonlight
Last Friday, an almost Full Moon rose as the Sun set, over this mountainous landscape north of Beijing, […]
Leatherback Turtles Don’t Need Google Maps
By SINDYA N. BHANOO The big sea turtles’ use of Earth’s magnetic field gives them the navigational skills […]
NASA Mission to Study Magnetic Explosions Lifts Off
By KENNETH CHANG The Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, consisting of four identical spacecraft, will study a phenomenon that is […]
Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System
By KENNETH CHANG Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, appears to have a roiling ocean with hydrothermal vents, while […]
Along the Cygnus Wall
The W-shaped ridge of emission featured in this vivid skyscape is known as the Cygnus Wall. Part of […]
Conservatives May Not Be Happier Than Liberals After All, Studies ...
By ERICA GOODE New research focusing on behavior upends what was previously thought about the so-called ideological happiness […]
An Unlikely Driver of Evolution: Arsenic
By CARL ZIMMER A new study suggests that people who live in the Atacama Desert are more resistant […]