Slowing Ocean Acidification With Kelp
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Researchers hope that planting seaweed could be a local strategy to ease the effects […]
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Female Elephants Follow in Their Mothers’ Footsteps
By AMY YEE As poaching thins out the ranks of matriarchs, their daughters are taking over as the […]
Consciousness: The Mind Messing With the Mind
By GEORGE JOHNSON Science is struggling to figure out if we, or even a thermostat, truly possess matter […]
What Poison Ivy Has Against Us
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY Most people know, and fear, the distinctive three-leaf pattern in the wild. Do other […]
What to Expect When NASA’s Spacecraft Juno Gets to Jupiter
By KENNETH CHANG Juno will orbit the gas giant 37 times in 20 months, with the hopes that […]
A Space Pioneer, 79, Is Ready to Track Juno for ...
By KENNETH CHANG Susan G. Finley, whose career with NASA spans more than five decades, will monitor signals […]
A Space Pioneer, 79, Is Ready to Track Her Next ...
By KENNETH CHANG Susan G. Finley, whose career with NASA spans more than five decades, will monitor signals […]
NASA Announces Extension of 9 Spacecraft Missions
By KENNETH CHANG As the spacecraft Juno approaches Jupiter, NASA has decided to extend the lives of several […]
A Roller Coaster in the Sky for Frigatebirds
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR The seabirds, which can stay aloft for months without coming down, were found by […]
Growing Pains for Field of Epigenetics as Some Call for ...
By CARL ZIMMER Studies of so-called epigenetic marks, crucial to our development, have met with growing skepticism over […]