More Progress Made Toward Learning Contents of Herculaneum Scrolls
By NICHOLAS WADE Researchers say that for the first time, they can read letters inside the scrolls without […]
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28 Months on Mars
By Unknown Author NASA’s Curiosity rover has found evidence of lakes and streams on a warmer, wetter, habitable […]
Extreme Migration: Geese Hug the Himalayas
By DOUGLAS QUENQUA Scientists have discovered that bar-headed geese stay close to the terrain on their round trip, […]
Electricity-Free Fountains
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY How did ornamental water fountains work before the availability of electricity or even steam […]
Amid the Clatter of Bats, a Call to Feed
By JAMES GORMAN When a greater mouse-tailed bat hears another bat hunting, it flies toward the sound, because […]
NASA Spacecraft Get a Closer Look at Dwarf Planets Pluto ...
By KENNETH CHANG The Dawn and New Horizons missions will soon start collecting data about Pluto and Ceres […]
Growing Older, Not Happier
By JANE GROSS ‘Essays After Eighty’ is a frank collection from Donald Hall about the tarnish of the […]
Food Detectives on a Tough Case
By PETER ANDREY SMITH A lab is at the forefront of an effort to keep China from dodging […]
Millennials Set to Outnumber Baby Boomers
By DOUGLAS QUENQUA The total of millennials — those born from 1981 to 1997 — will reach 75.3 […]
Living at Random
By GEORGE JOHNSON Though we long for control, chance plays a powerful role in the biology of cancer […]