A Wrenching Choice for Alaska Towns in the Path of Climate Change
Alaska is warming about twice as fast as the rest of the nation. So what are the dozens of villages at imminent risk of destruction to do?
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C. Megan Urry, Peering Into Universe, Spots Bias on the Ground
The first woman to head the Yale physics department — she specializes in the study of black holes — has continued to combat gender inequities in science.
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CreditKo Sasaki for The New York Times Space’s Trash Collector? A Japanese Entrepreneur Wants the Job
A start-up company called Astroscale is dedicated to cleaning up some of humanity’s hardest-to-reach rubbish, and its plans include a small satellite with an adhesive glue.
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3,800-Year-Old Statue Resembling ‘The Thinker’ Found in Israel
The figurine was unearthed by high school students helping archaeologists on a dig near Tel Aviv.
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CreditJean E. Roche/Minden Pictures Flamingo Mating Rules: 1. Learn the Funky Chicken
The birds with the largest repertoires of dance moves are the ones who most often succeed in finding mates, researchers have found.
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CreditSergei Supinsky/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Giant Arch, a Feat of Engineering, Now Covers Chernobyl Site in Ukraine
The shelter, under construction since 2010, covers the deteriorating steel and concrete sarcophagus hastily built after the nuclear accident 30 years ago.
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CreditRachel Nuwer A Forgotten Step in Saving African Wildlife: Protecting the Rangers
Many park personnel, responsible for fending off poachers, go without basic necessities like boots, tents and health insurance. Some groups are trying to change that.
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CreditNASA/JPL How Cassini Will Begin Its Date With Death on Saturn
On Wednesday, the spacecraft that has studied Saturn for a dozen years will commence a series of maneuvers that will graze the planet’s rings.
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CreditAssociated Press Solving a Mystery Behind the Deadly ‘Tsunami of Molasses’ of 1919
Researchers say they have figured out a piece of the puzzle of why a 2.3 million-gallon spill of molasses from a storage tank in Boston was so deadly, killing 21 people and destroying buildings.
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CreditiStock With Shifts in National Mood Come Shifts in Words We Use, Study Suggests
A new analysis of Google Books and The New York Times archives suggests that when things get bad, the words do, too.
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CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona An Ice Sheet the Size of New Mexico Hidden in Martian Crater
An underground ice deposit larger than New Mexico at a relatively low latitude on Mars could be an inviting destination for future explorers.
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CreditOli Scarff/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Thanksgiving Turkeys May Have Been Tamed 1,500 Years Ago in Mexico
In a clutch of intact eggs in a fortress in Oaxaca, Mexico, researchers found some of the earliest known signs of turkey domestication.
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CreditKiichiro Sato/Associated Press Your Phone Carries Chemical Clues About You, but There Are Limits to Using Them
Researchers could make inferences about people from the chemicals they left on their phones, but there could be problems with using them in criminal investigations and court cases.
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CreditNASA Mercury Is Shrinking, a ‘Great Valley’ Shows
The canyon is about the size of Montana and twice as deep as the Grand Canyon, and the planet’s cooling may have led to its formation.
