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Cosmos Controversy: The Universe Is Expanding, but How Fast?
A small discrepancy in the value of a long-sought number has fostered a debate about just how well we know the cosmos.
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Credit Hunched Over a Microscope, He Sketched the Secrets of How the Brain Works
The illustrations of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the father of modern neuroscience, are featured in the new book “The Beautiful Brain.”
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When Mismatched Voices and Lips Make Your Brain Play Tricks
Researchers tried to pin down why our brains can be susceptible to errors in perception that make us mix up mouth movements and sounds.
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CreditLuke Sharrett/Getty Images How an Interoffice Spat Erupted Into a Climate-Change Furor
A retired scientist became a hero to some climate-change deniers after he criticized his former boss at NOAA over data handling.
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CreditNASA, via European Pressphoto Agency SpaceX Launches Rocket Carrying Space Station Cargo
The rocket lifted off from a launchpad used for the Apollo moon missions. It was the first launch from Kennedy Space Center in more than five years.
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CreditReinhard Dirscherl/UllsteinBild, via Getty Images Disappearing Seagrass Protects Against Pathogens, Even Climate Change, Scientists Find
An ecological cornerstone is vanishing rapidly from the oceans, and scientists fear the consequences for climate change, fisheries and disease.
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CreditPatrick Roeschli Prey: The Reason Turtles First Came Out of Their Shells
Some researchers think turtles evolved the ability to retract and then stretch their necks to snatch prey, not defend themselves in their shells.
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CreditJorge Gonzalez After Earth’s Worst Mass Extinction, Life Rebounded Rapidly, Fossils Suggest
A teenager’s fossil hunt two decades ago may have changed paleontologists’ understanding of how long it took to recover from the “Great Dying” 252 million years ago.
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CreditJosh Haner/The New York Times Mexico City, Parched and Sinking, Faces a Water Crisis
Climate change is threatening to push a crowded capital toward a breaking point.
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CreditOded Lipschits Ancient Jars Hold Clues About Earth’s Fluctuating Magnetic Fields
By scanning pottery from the Iron Age kingdom of Judah, geoscientists detected a spike and then a decline in the planet’s magnetic field starting in the eighth century B.C.
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CreditBryan Anselm for The New York Times How to Keep the Bloom on That Valentine Rose
Just like hangover cures, there are many theories about the best method for keeping cut flowers fresh. Here’s what you need to know.
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CreditJenny Watling Long Before Making Enigmatic Earthworks, People Reshaped Brazil’s Rain Forest
New research finds that humans were sustainably managing the landscape, perhaps thousands of years before they were carving intricate geoglyphs into the earth.
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CreditBullit Marquez/Associated Press Lunar Eclipse and Green Comet Make for Busy Friday Night in the Sky
The casual skygazer shouldn’t expect much of a spectacle from the back-to-back penumbral lunar eclipse and passage of Comet 45P.
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Credit What Makes a Woman a Good Dancer? Watch the Hips, a Study Says
Researchers found that big hip swings and asymmetric arm and thigh movements give the impression of being a better dancer.
