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Tree Stumps Are Dead, Right? This One Was Alive
When two ecologists hiking in New Zealand discovered this stump, they had to figure out how it could still be alive.
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When two ecologists hiking in New Zealand discovered this stump, they had to figure out how it could still be alive.
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A downside of social living among monkeys and chimpanzees, a new study suggests, is being at greater risk of deadly disease.
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The Planetary Society deployed LightSail 2, aiming to further demonstrate the potential of the technology for space propulsion.
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“Something happened to the brain” of diplomats who reported odd ailments, a brain-imaging study suggests. But the cause is still unclear.
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Sometimes the interests of humans and animals are the same, but humans have to save the animals first.
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Computer scientists have developed an algorithm that can pick out almost any American in databases supposedly stripped of personal information.
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Eggs vibrate in response to parental alarm calls, then pass on the warning to nearby eggs.
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Its condition is pristine, but its identity is a mystery. For now, maritime archaeologists call it Okänt Skepp, Swedish for “unknown ship.”
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Apollo 11’s return to Earth, in the astronauts’ words and photos.
By Jonathan Corum, Mika Gröndahl, Evan Grothjan, Jon Huang, Lingdong Huang, Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, Karthik Patanjali and
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On Sunday night, The Times presents a play, built from the words of the men and women who made the Apollo missions happen.
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Astronauts would probably have to grow some of their own food to survive a round trip to Mars. Could a crop of chiles be the gateway to the future?
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Neil Armstrong’s first small step owed more than you’d think to the footsteps of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells and Fritz Lang.
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Until the Apollo 11 mission, my family didn’t have a television. Then, for one weekend, we joined the rest of Planet Earth.
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Scientists have created “soft” magnets that can flow and change shape, and that could be a boon to medicine and robotics.
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Scientists were surprised to find something living on the sterile heights of this Chilean volcano.
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Persistent pools of lava are quite rare on Earth, and it took years of satellite images to find this one.
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The Cretaceous Period flier, trapped in amber 99 million years ago, had features unlike any bird living today.
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Researchers have become convinced that Snowball, a YouTube sensation, and perhaps other animals, share humans’ sensitivity to music. He certainly has his own moves.
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