A Praying Mantis’s Spin on Body Control
By JAMES GORMAN The insect has complex and coordinated movements of its forelegs, hind legs and abdomen in […]
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Hand-Wringing Over Bacteria
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY Does the widespread use of hand sanitizers risk breeding resistant bacteria? Published: March 10, […]
Galaxy and Cluster Create Four Images of Distant Supernova
What are the unusual spots surrounding that galaxy? They are all images of the same supernova. For the […]
Farmers Put Down the Plow for More Productive Soil
By ERICA GOODE Soil-conservation farming, a movement that promotes not tilling fields and using “green” manures, is gaining […]
Stars at the Galactic Center
The center of our Milky Way Galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds […]
NGC 602 in the Flying Lizard Nebula
Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies 5 […]
Short Circuits Reported in Mars Rover’s Drilling Arm
By KENNETH CHANG NASA engineers are diagnosing an electrical problem on the Curiosity Mars rover, which may limit […]
NASA’s Dawn Probe Begins Orbiting Dwarf Planet Ceres
By KENNETH CHANG The spacecraft, launched in 2007, is now circling Ceres in the asteroid belt between Mars […]
Cometary Globule CG4
The faint and somehow menacing cometary globule CG4 reaches through the center of this deep southern skyscape. About […]
Fastest Star in the Galaxy Got an Unusual Start
By DOUGLAS QUENQUA Scientists say US 708— thought to be the fastest unbound star in the galaxy — […]