Monumental Piece of the Old, Old City of Petra
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR With the help of drones and satellite imagery, archaeologists have discovered a platform about half […]
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A Face-Reading Fish
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR The archerfish can obtain food by shooting down insects with jets of water. Now researchers […]
Video From a Polar Bear’s Point of View
By JAMES GORMAN Collar-mounted cameras have produced glimpses of a polar bear’s life, giving researchers a picture of […]
What Dead Pigs Can’t Teach Us About ‘C.S.I.’
By ERICA GOODE Forensic experts have long used decomposing pigs as proxies for humans in estimating when someone […]
When Eels Get Aggressive
By KEN CATANIA and EDWARD FETNER Researchers studied how eels can use targeted, high-voltage volleys to attack their […]
Cure
By BENJAMIN SCHEUER Mr. Scheuer conveys the dread that brands cancer patients, whether or not their type of […]
A New Home on Rattlesnake Island
By ROBIN LINDSAY and JESS BIDGOOD The timber rattlesnake’s population has been decimated, but biologists are hoping it […]
Light Pollution Masks the Milky Way for a Third of ...
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR A new interactive atlas shows the global effects of artificial light on views of […]
Quick Analysis Finds Effect of Climate Change in French Floods
By HENRY FOUNTAIN Using data and computer simulations, researchers say warming temperatures increased the likelihood of a deluge […]
Iceland Carbon Dioxide Storage Project Locks Away Gas, and Fast
By HENRY FOUNTAIN Researchers report success in an experiment that keeps a gas tied to global warming out […]