Science
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Why Have One ‘Impossible’ Ring Around Your World When You Could Have Two?
The News Earlier this year, astronomers announced that a tiny world beyond Neptune with a diameter about one-third that of…
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Salamander Dads Are Turning Into Cannibals, Threatening Species Survival
The hellbenders’ alarming change in behavior may be linked to deforestation, a new study found.
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Flocking to One of the Few Specks of Land in Sight of a Total Eclipse
Tens of thousands descended on a tiny town in Western Australia, hundreds of miles from any city, to view a…
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This Elephant Taught Herself to Peel Bananas
An elephant at the Berlin Zoo can use her trunk to peel bananas, an unusual behavior she engages in only…
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Imagine T. Rex. Now Imagine It With Lips.
The apex dinosaur’s terrifying teeth were sheathed in lip-like tissue, some paleontologists say. Imagine them more akin to Komodo dragons…
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A Shark Discovery ‘Didn’t Look Right.’ It Might Have Been a Plastic Toy.
Scientists have retracted a study that showed a rare goblin shark washed up on a Greek beach after other researchers…
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The First 3-D Printed Rocket Fails Shortly After Launch
Relativity Space, a private company with ambitions for sending people to Mars, made it off the launchpad, but the vehicle…
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At Long Last, a Donkey Family Tree
The donkey is a key, if increasingly marginalized, character in human history. Once venerated, the animal has been an object…
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No, Female Mice Are Not More Erratic
A new study challenges a century-old assumption used to exclude female mice from scientific research because of their hormonal cycles.
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After Long Delay, Moderna Pays N.I.H. for Covid Vaccine Technique
Moderna has paid $400 million to the government for a chemical technique key to its vaccine. But the parties are…