Stingray Robot Powered by Light, and Living Rat Cells
By STEPH YIN Among other applications, a new artificial stingray can teach scientists more about how the heart […]
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Los Angeles Looks for Extra Water Down Its Alleys
By TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG In the fifth year of a drought, Los Angeles wants to convert miles of extra […]
Another Inconvenient Truth: It’s Hard to Agree How to Fight ...
By JOHN SCHWARTZ While activists can agree that something must be done, differences arise over exactly what and […]
Story of Philistines Could Be Reshaped by Ancient Cemetery
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR Archaeologists in Ashkelon, Israel, said they had found a burial site that could help […]
Juno: Piercing Jupiter’s Clouds
By DENNIS OVERBYE, JONATHAN CORUM and JASON DRAKEFORD On July 4, 2016, NASA’s Juno spacecraft will arrive to […]
Mysterious Rite of Reproduction
By NATALIA V. OSIPOVA Watch corals in their procreative dance, a spectacular event that happens once a year […]
A Secret to Swordfish Speed Is Found: Grease
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR Scientists have discovered an oil-producing gland that lubricates the fish’s head and helps it achieve […]
‘Bomb Robot’ Takes Down Dallas Gunman, but Raises Enforcement Questions
By HENRY FOUNTAIN and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT Did the use of a bomb disposal robot by Dallas police […]
A Planet Where Sunsets Are 3 Times as Nice
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR Astronomers have discovered HD 131399Ab, a gas giant in a system with three stars […]
500-Million-Year-Old Worm Was an Undersea Architect
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR What scientists originally thought was ancient seaweed turned out to be tubelike shelters built […]