Snowflake Symmetry
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY Snowflakes can appear perfectly symmetrical, raising the question of whether each of its arms […]
Science
A Tiring Question Challenges Scientists
By DOUGLAS QUENQUA Scientists from around the world will compete to best answer the question “What is sleep?” […]
Learning Our Roots, Inside and Out
By VIRGINIA HUGHES Genealogy can reveal secrets about all of us, at once: the emergence of our species, […]
Much-Discussed Views That Go Way Back
By CLAUDIA DREIFUS Avi Loeb has published more than 400 papers on the nature of early stars, galaxies, […]
Stars and Dust Pillars in NGC 7822 from WISE
Hot, young stars and cosmic pillars of gas and dust seem to crowd into NGC 7822. At the […]
Math That Pursues, Spins and Swarms
By HELENE STAPINSKI A new exhibit featuring dozens of glowing, motorized, interactive robots will teach people what it […]
New Images Refine View of Infant Universe
By DENNIS OVERBYE The subject of Planck 2014 is a new baby picture — and all of the […]
The Seahorse of the Large Magellanic Cloud
It may look like a grazing seahorse, but the dark object toward the image right is actually a […]
3D 67P
Get out your red/blue glasses and float next to a comet! The Rosetta mission lander Philae’s ROLIS camera […]
Portrait of NGC 281
Look through the cosmic cloud cataloged as NGC 281 and you might miss the stars of open cluster […]