Science
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It’s a Golden Age for Shipwreck Discoveries. Why?
More lost shipwrecks are being found because of new technology, climate change and more vessels scanning the ocean floor for…
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NASA Is Recruiting a New Class of Astronauts
Victor Glover, a nine-year veteran of the astronaut corps who will fly around the moon in 2025, said the search…
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A Total Solar Eclipse Is Coming. Here’s What You Need to Know.
These are answers to common questions about the April 8 eclipse, and we’re offering you a place to pose more…
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Life After Asteroid Bennu
Dante Lauretta, the planetary scientist who led the OSIRIS-REx mission to retrieve a handful of space dust, discusses his next…
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Smells Like Teen … Sandalwood?
Two musky steroids, and higher levels of odorous acids, distinguish the body odors of teens and tots, a new study…
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These Mobile Games Are for the Birds
How do you design an app for a parrot? Consider games that are “made to be licked,” a new study…
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Fossil Trove From 74,000 Years Ago Points to Remarkably Adaptive Humans
An archaeological site in Ethiopia revealed the oldest-known arrowheads and the remnants of a major volcanic eruption.
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Abel Prize Awarded for Studies of Universe’s Randomness
Michel Talagrand of France has credited a brush with blindness for leading to the work that resulted in his recognition…
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Walter Massey, a Physicist With a Higher Calling
The day before Walter Massey turned 30, in 1968, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot on…
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Where the Wild Things Went During the Pandemic
A new study of camera-trap images complicates the idea that all wildlife thrived during the Covid lockdowns.