How Do You Find an Alien Ocean? Margaret Kivelson Figured ...
For forty years, the physicist at U.C.L.A. has been uncovering the outer solar system’s secrets. Few scientists know […]
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Your Dog May Be Smart, but She’s Not Exceptional by ...
In a new study, scientists say that dogs do not stand out compared to other animals when it […]
There Are Fat Bears in Alaska, and You Can Vote ...
Katmai National Park in southern Alaska is home to thousands of bears. This week, rangers are celebrating the […]
Drunk Birds? How a Small Minnesota City Stumbled Into the ...
A police chief’s notice that birds were getting tipsy off fermented berries prompted a media blitz. But experts […]
An Ancient Ant-Bacteria Partnership to Protect Fungus by NICHOLAS ST. ...
Amber specimens indicate that fungus-farming ants have been cooperating with antimicrobial bacteria for tens of millions of years. […]
A Tube of DNA? Not Pretty, but That’s Life by ...
Extracting and purifying DNA is routine now, but the results are not particularly aesthetic. Published: October 5, 2018 […]
Taming the Groundcherry: With Crispr, a Fussy Fruit Inches Toward ...
You may have never eaten a groundcherry, but with common gene-editing techniques it and other fruits may be […]
Hidden Stories of Chinese Migration and Culture Found in Giant ...
Scientists reported an assortment of findings resulting from a sweeping and novel analysis of data from the prenatal […]
How a Seafloor Blob Became Mexico’s ‘Black Gold’ by NATALIE ...
A frenzy for sea cucumbers, driven by demand in Asia, has brought their populations near collapse in the […]
Viruses Spread by Insects to Crops Sound Scary. The Military ...
Critics warn that a Defense Department-funded food security project that is still in the lab could set off […]