Skype Founders Build a Robot for Suburban Streets
By JOHN MARKOFF The entrepreneurs Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis are behind a Starship Technologies bot designed to […]
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Gaining Insight Into Some Itches
By SINDYA N. BHANOO Itches caused by the lightest of touches are created by a dedicated neural pathway, […]
Bird Eggs Are Fertilized by More Than One Sperm
By SINDYA N. BHANOO Penetration by multiple sperm may be unusual among animals, but it is somehow crucial […]
A Hawaiian Canoe Crosses the Oceans, Guided by Sun and ...
By LAURA PARKER The Hokule’a is circling the globe without modern navigation, drawing attention to climate change and […]
Crickets and Their Spectacular Dancelike Leaps
By JAMES GORMAN The soaring jumps of an invasive cricket look like an insect ballet in slow motion. […]
More Than Half of Entire Species of Saigas Gone in ...
By CARL ZIMMER Scientists now estimate that at least 211,000 of the antelopes — more than half of […]
Taking the Measure of Body Temperature
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY If our normal body temperature is about 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, or 37 degrees centigrade, […]
The Pacific Ocean Becomes a Caldron
By JOHN SCHWARTZ The interplay of all the different kinds of warming going on can be difficult to […]
A Rooftop View of Insect Migration in a Warming Climate
By SINDYA N. BHANOO Researchers at the Natural History Museum of Denmark say that climate change is affecting […]
Leo P. Kadanoff, Physicist of Phase Transitions, Dies at 78
By KENNETH CHANG Dr. Kadanoff studied the process by which matter changes from one form to another and […]