Science
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An Asteroid Wiped Out Dinosaurs. Did It Help Birds Flourish?
Today’s birds began their evolution into more than 10,000 species long before the fateful collision, a new genetic study found.
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A Mushroom Grew in a Strange Place: The Side of a Frog
Maybe frog and fungi are friends.
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The Doomsday Clock Keeps Ticking
The Bomb and I go way back. In Seattle, where I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, it was…
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Fragments of Asteroid With Mystery Origin Are Found Outside Berlin
Astronomers tracked the entry of a small space rock into Earth’s atmosphere, and then meteorite hunters made an unexpected discovery.
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A Spacecraft Named Odysseus Prepares to Launch to the Moon, Again
A day after SpaceX called off the flight of a spacecraft from Intuitive Machines of Houston, the company is ready…
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Mysterious Pattern in a Cave Is Oldest Rock Art Found in Patagonia
About 8,200 years ago, in one of the last places settled by humans, prehistoric peoples began painting comblike designs as…
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A Spacecraft Named Odysseus Will Launch to the Moon: How to Watch
Intuitive Machines of Houston, the latest private company to attempt to carry NASA payloads to the lunar surface, will lift…
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Self-Love Is Important, but We Mammals Are Stuck With Sex
If Galentine’s Day had an animal mascot, it would have to be one of the species whose females can reproduce…
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An Asteroid Wiped Out Dinosaurs. Did It Help Birds Flourish?
Today’s birds began their evolution into more than 10,000 species long before the fateful collision, a new genetic study found.
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A Mushroom Grew in a Strange Place: The Side of a Frog
Maybe frog and fungi are friends.