Most Primate Species Threatened With Extinction, Scientists Find
By CARL ZIMMER From gorillas to gibbons, a wide-ranging survey finds that the world’s primates are in steep […]
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How 2016 Became Earth’s Hottest Year on Record
By JUGAL K. PATEL 2016 is the hottest year on the historical record and the third consecutive record-breaking […]
Earth Sets a Temperature Record for the Third Straight Year
By JUSTIN GILLIS and JOHN SCHWARTZ Surface temperatures are heading toward levels that many scientists believe will pose […]
Eight Crossings and 192 Atoms Long: the Tightest Knot Ever ...
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR Researchers tied a complicated knot at the molecular level, which could be used to make […]
Archaeologists and Metal Detectorists Find Common Ground
By TYLER J. KELLEY An unconventional alliance between scientists and those often considered to be looters has begun […]
The Stem-Cell Revolution Is Coming — Slowly
By WALLACE RAVVEN Where are the miracle treatments we were promised? A Nobel Prize-winning scientist explains. Published: January […]
A Manakin Challenge for Researchers
By JAMES GORMAN Male manakins, Panamanian birds, have acrobatic courtship dances. Scientists wanted to know if the activity […]
Born to Be an Ear Wiggler?
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY Some people can control their auricular muscles to move the ear slightly but to […]
Venus Smiled, With a Mysterious Wave Across Its Atmosphere
By KENNETH CHANG Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft detected what scientists called a gravity wave above the solar system’s second […]
Absolutely Every Bit of Our Galaxy
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR With novel mathematical methods, scientists have come up with a new estimate for the mass […]