Fossil’s Unusual Size and Location Offer Clues in Evolution of ...
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD The skull fossil is from a newly discovered extinct species, Vintana, similar to groundhogs, […]
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Bound for Pluto, Carrying Memories of Triton
By DENNIS OVERBYE When the New Horizons probe passes the former planet next year, it may look familiar: […]
Moon and Earth from Chang e 5 T1
Described at times as a big blue marble, from some vantage points Earth looks more like a small […]
Papers That Are Most Cited Aren’t Most Famous
By DOUGLAS QUENQUA The top three of the 100 most highly cited scientific papers are biochemical techniques for […]
What Determines the Sex of a Persimmon
By SINDYA N. BHANOO Most plants have both male and female organs, but not the permission tree. Now […]
A Gene by Any Other Name
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY All human genes get three-to-five-letter symbols for easier reference, though they may seem abstract. […]
Humans Raise Penguins as Well as Penguins Do
By DOUGLAS QUENQUA Penguin chicks hand-raised by researchers and released back into the wild survived at about the […]
In Green Company: Aurora over Norway
Raise your arms if you see an aurora. With those instructions, two nights went by with, well, clouds […]
A Fight for the Young Creationist Mind
By JEFFERY DelVISCIO Bill Nye, well known as a televised educator and sometimes firebrand for science, follows a […]
Strays Leading the Soviets Into Space
By DANA JENNINGS Throughout the 1950s and into the ’60s, canine cosmonauts were plucked from the streets and […]