Randall Munroe, XKCD Creator, Goes Back to High School
By KENNETH CHANG Some pages in coming science textbooks will explain elevators as “lifting rooms” and the circulatory […]
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Parrots Are a Lot More Than ‘Pretty Bird’
By NATALIE ANGIER Out of the cage, they speak their own language, make tools, and wreak havoc on […]
What Spring Looks Like from Space
By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR An image from the Meteosat-9 satellite shows Earth on the vernal equinox, the official […]
Amid a Graying Fleet of Nuclear Plants, a Hunt for ...
By HENRY FOUNTAIN To avoid a shortage of generating capacity in coming decades, the industry is looking at […]
Empathy May Be Overrated in an Election, and in a ...
By JOHN TIERNEY It’s not clear that the trait matters much to voters, and some social scientists argue […]
El Niño Upsets Seasons and Upends Lives Worldwide
By HENRY FOUNTAIN The World Health Organization has estimated that changes related to the weather phenomenon are putting […]
Beyond Record Hot, February Was ‘Astronomical’ and ‘Strange’
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Earth got so hot last month that federal scientists struggled to find words, describing […]
Environmental Activists Take to Local Protests for Global Results
By JOHN SCHWARTZ A wave of actions across the nation are combining not-in-my-backyard protests against fossil-fuel projects with […]
Fighting Macular Degeneration
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY Advances are being developed to improve results against the so-called wet and dry forms […]
Defense Department Redefines Climate Change
By TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG The Department of Defense has updated the definition of climate change in its homegrown dictionary. […]