A Debatable Fix for Young Eyes
By SINDYA N. BHANOO Eye specialists are offering young patients a contentious remedy to nearsightedness: contact lenses that […]
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He’s Glad You Asked
By KENNETH CHANG How much power can one Yoda output? What happens if you tried to hit a […]
Unexpected Complexity in a Spider’s Tiny Brain
By JAMES GORMAN A group of researchers has found a way to study the delicate and complex brain […]
Portland Will Still Be Cool, but Anchorage May Be the ...
By JENNIFER A. KINGSON Scientists trying to predict the consequences of climate change see few havens from future […]
Titan Beyond the Rings
When orbiting Saturn, be sure to watch for breathtaking superpositions of moons and rings. One such picturesque vista […]
The Day After Mars
October 31, 1938 was the day after Martians encountered planet Earth, and everything was calm. Reports of the […]
Virgin Galactic Is Rattled, but Undeterred, by Deadly Space Plane ...
By KENNETH CHANG The company and federal investigators began their investigations into what caused a space plane to […]
Privately Financed Spaceship Roars Closer to Space
By KENNETH CHANG “We will be going to space at the end of this year,” Richard Branson, the […]
Milky Way over Devils Tower
A mysterious formation known as Devils Tower rises into the dark above northeastern Wyoming’s prairie landscape in this […]
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Crashes During Test Flight
By KENNETH CHANG There was one death and one major injury, a police spokesman said, in the crash […]