What Determines the Sex of a Persimmon
By SINDYA N. BHANOO Most plants have both male and female organs, but not the permission tree. Now […]
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A Gene by Any Other Name
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY All human genes get three-to-five-letter symbols for easier reference, though they may seem abstract. […]
Humans Raise Penguins as Well as Penguins Do
By DOUGLAS QUENQUA Penguin chicks hand-raised by researchers and released back into the wild survived at about the […]
A Fight for the Young Creationist Mind
By JEFFERY DelVISCIO Bill Nye, well known as a televised educator and sometimes firebrand for science, follows a […]
Strays Leading the Soviets Into Space
By DANA JENNINGS Throughout the 1950s and into the ’60s, canine cosmonauts were plucked from the streets and […]
A Debatable Fix for Young Eyes
By SINDYA N. BHANOO Eye specialists are offering young patients a contentious remedy to nearsightedness: contact lenses that […]
He’s Glad You Asked
By KENNETH CHANG How much power can one Yoda output? What happens if you tried to hit a […]
Unexpected Complexity in a Spider’s Tiny Brain
By JAMES GORMAN A group of researchers has found a way to study the delicate and complex brain […]
Portland Will Still Be Cool, but Anchorage May Be the ...
By JENNIFER A. KINGSON Scientists trying to predict the consequences of climate change see few havens from future […]
Virgin Galactic Is Rattled, but Undeterred, by Deadly Space Plane ...
By KENNETH CHANG The company and federal investigators began their investigations into what caused a space plane to […]