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In April 2019, the world was spellbound, if only for a moment, by an ominous void encircled by a half-halo of light.…
Mar 23
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New basalt just dropped. An international team of scientists drilled nearly a mile into the Pacific seafloor and…
Mar 23
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So far, human exploration on Mars has been measured in the circular motion of orbiters above the planet and the…
Mar 22
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Nine years ago, a team of Yale ecologists mapped out the world’s life, a project that showed biodiversity patterns…
Mar 20
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Sometimes, we give up on a species too soon. Just because it’s been a few decades or even centuries since a creature…
Mar 18
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Three weeks ago, Earthlings sat agog by their computers as they heard the first sounds recorded by NASA’s…
Mar 18
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Paleontologists have announced the discovery of an extraordinary fossil shark in Mexico. They describe Aquilolamna mi…
Mar 18
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The headless horseman would make fast friends with an Asian ankylosaur; where the former tends to be missing its…
Mar 17
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Quivering with life, the developing mice moved ever-so-slightly in their vials. Just a few days since they were…
Mar 17
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On Saturday, a team of Russian researchers dropped a brand-new telescope into frigid Lake Baikal, the deepest lake…
Mar 16
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In late February, the Army Corps of Engineers was working to deepen the Savannah River abutting the city of…
Mar 15
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Some 230 million light-years from Earth, there’s a black hole going places. These extraordinarily dense objects are u…
Mar 15
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Researchers have found microbes in the deep sea that are completely invisible to the human immune system, a somewhat…
Mar 12
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Billions of years ago, parts of Greenland were a molten sea, a sharp contrast to the pale-blue ice seen there today.…
Mar 10
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Popularized by myth and historical accounts as horse-riding warrior nomads of the Eurasian steppe, the true story of…
Mar 10
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Derpy from the side and hellish from below, the lamprey is the bane of the Great Lakes fisheries industry. A…
Mar 10
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Over the Christmas season of 2019, four physicists hovered over two minuscule gold orbs, each about the size of a…
Mar 8
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Looking like opened pea pods with a lustrous sheen, the sea slugs Elysia cf. marginata and Elysia atroviridis aren’t…
Mar 5
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About 20 miles (32 kilometers) off the Californian coast, the 10,500-pound (4,7630-kilogram) remote submersible Doc…
Mar 3
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In July 1697, Jacques Sennacques of Lille, France, scribbled off a missive to his merchant cousin, Pierre le Pers,…