Perils of Climate Change Could Swamp Coastal Real Estate
By IAN URBINA Homeowners are slowly growing wary of buying property in the areas most at risk, setting […]
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Thanksgiving Turkeys May Have Been Tamed 1,500 Years Ago in ...
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR In a clutch of intact eggs in a fortress in Oaxaca, Mexico, researchers found […]
Your Dog Remembers More Than You Think
By JAMES GORMAN Researchers are investigating whether dogs share the more complex kind of memory like humans and […]
James Simons’s Foundation Starts New Institute for Computing, Big Data
By KENNETH CHANG The new venture, the Flatiron Institute, will house programmers and scientists researching astrophysics, among other […]
Explaining the Other Side of Autumn Leaves
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY As the leaves change color, one side gets the gloriously bright reds, yellows and […]
Global Warming Alters Arctic Food Chain, Scientists Say, With Unforeseeable ...
By CARL ZIMMER The annual production of algae, the base of the food web, increased an estimated 47 […]
Your Phone Carries Chemical Clues About You, but There Are ...
By JOANNA KLEIN Researchers could make inferences about people from the chemicals they left on their phones, but […]
Mercury Is Shrinking, a ‘Great Valley’ Shows
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR The canyon is about the size of Montana and twice as deep as the […]
Exxon Mobil Accuses the Rockefellers of a Climate Conspiracy
By JOHN SCHWARTZ The company, accused of scheming to deny the threat of climate change, has directed its […]
This Thanksgiving, Be Thankful for Science
By MICHAEL ROSTON We’re not saying you can’t talk about politics on Thanksgiving. But here are some conversation […]