A Population of Billions May Have Contributed to This Bird’s ...
A new study suggests passenger pigeons were hyper-adapted to living in a large, stable population, leaving them unable […]
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‘Gene Drives’ Are Too Risky for Field Trials, Scientists Say ...
New research casts doubt on a gene-editing strategy that scientists had hoped to use against invasive species and […]
Chimps Tailor Alarms to What Other Chimps Know by JAMES ...
Experiments show that the animals change their communications depending on how much their audience knows. Published: November 15, […]
Eleven Light-Years Away, an Earth-Size Planet That May Be Habitable ...
Astronomers have found a planet circling Ross 128, a quiet red star in our own galactic neighborhood. Published: […]
New Species of Sponges Found on the Pacific Seafloor by ...
The tiny creatures live on rock nodules containing metals like iron, cobalt and copper that are targeted for […]
The Dream Chaser Space Plane Takes Flight and Aces Its ...
Built by Sierra Nevada Corporation, the space plane that brings to mind NASA’s retired shuttles completed a successful […]
Trillions of Flies Can’t All Be Bad by JAMES GORMAN
The world’s flies do much more than annoy us. Pollinating plants, cleaning up carcasses, swabbing drains — flies […]
Wine From Prehistoric Georgia With an 8,000-Year-Old Vintage by NICHOLAS ...
Pottery shards recovered from two archaeological sites in the country are the oldest evidence of winemaking, pushing the […]
The Way the Wind Blows by C. CLAIBORNE RAY
Why do most wind turbines have three blades? Published: November 10, 2017 at 01:00AM from #NYT Science Read […]
The Bridge Wobbles. So Do You. That’s When the Trouble ...
Mathematicians found that bridges wobble suddenly when a critical crowed threshold is exceeded, and developed a model to […]