Playing Mozart’s Piano Pieces as Mozart Did
By RACHEL NUWER A music scholar plays classical piano pieces with techniques that 19th-century performers learned, producing a […]
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Utah’s ‘Grand Staircase’ Leads Back in Time to Dinosaur Shangri-La
By JENNIFER PINKOWSKI The craggy Kaiparowits Plateau, part of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, was once a steamy […]
Yuri Milner, Russian Entrepreneur, Promises $100 Million for Alien Search
By DENNIS OVERBYE Mr. Milner says that over the next decade he will provide money for new receiving […]
Hearing With a Hole in Your Eardrum
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY The bigger the hole, the worse the loss of hearing will be, but the […]
The Long, Strange Trip to Pluto, and How NASA Nearly ...
By KENNETH CHANG The flyby of Pluto was a triumph of human ingenuity and the capstone of a […]
Counting All the DNA on Earth
By RACHEL NUWER Hint: It takes an awful lot of trillions to come up with this sort of […]
‘Beautiful Eye Candy’: Frozen Plains in Pluto’s Heart
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Vast frozen plains exist next door to Pluto’s big, rugged mountains sculpted of ice, […]
50-Million-Year-Old Fossilized Sperm in Antarctica
By SINDYA N. BHANOO “It’s a bizarre fossil oddball,” a Swedish paleontologist says, and as it turns out, […]
Pluto Terrain Yields Big Surprises in New Horizons Images
By KENNETH CHANG Images from the NASA mission show a mixed bag of terrains, including ice mountains and […]
Space Station Astronauts Take Shelter From Space Junk
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A piece of space junk forced the three space station astronauts to seek emergency […]