Rosetta Spacecraft to End Mission by Sinking to Its Comet ...
By KENNETH CHANG Rosetta, the first spacecraft to orbit a comet, is set to close a successful mission […]
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The Sweet Emotional Life of Bees
By JAMES GORMAN New experiments suggest that bees given treats may experience a positive, or optimistic, state of […]
In Decades Old Slides, Drops of Blood and Hints of ...
By JOANNA KLEIN DNA studies help reveal that some malaria strains closely followed the migrations of people: from […]
Trade Ban to Protect Pangolins: Enough to Save Them?
By RACHEL NUWER An international agreement now prohibits the commercial sale across international borders of the world’s most […]
Study May Give New Respect to Our Milky Way Neighborhood
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Our corner of the Milky Way galaxy may be a bigger deal than scientists […]
An Atlas of a Billion Stars
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR The European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope has been scanning the cosmos in order […]
Ringing Up a New Species of Crab
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR A previously unknown category of freshwater crab was found in a pet shop in a […]
Tardigrades Have the Right Stuff to Resist Radiation
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR Japanese researchers have found a protein in tardigrade cells that confers an ability to tolerate […]
Elon Musk’s Plan: Get Humans to Mars, and Beyond
By KENNETH CHANG Mr. Musk, the billionaire founder of SpaceX, hopes to make humanity a “multi-planetary species.” Published: […]
An App to Help Save Emissions (and Maybe Money) When ...
By JOHN SCHWARTZ The app is a result of research that looks at 125 cars and measures their […]