Science
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Can We Talk About How We Talk About the Weather?
When the barometer drops, the hyperbole rises, and meteorologists aren’t happy about it.
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‘Polar Vortex’ Got You Baffled? Try This Extreme-Weather Guide
A handy explanation of some of the newer climatological verbiage.
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What Happened to All of Science’s Big Breakthroughs?
A new study finds a steady drop since 1945 in disruptive feats as a share of the world’s booming enterprise…
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Let’s Hack the Universe
A popular cosmological theory holds that we live in a vast computer simulation. So how hard could it be to…
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Snarl, You’re on Candid Camera
Wildlife cameras in Wisconsin are capturing interspecies encounters — and providing evidence that human activity might make such meetings more…
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A Fossil Flower Trapped in Amber Had a Mistaken Identity for 150 Years
A study of the Baltic specimen offers new insights into what Europe’s climate was like some 35 million years ago.
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Dolphins Can Shout, but It’s Never Loud Enough
Researchers found that dolphins confronted with noise increase the volume and duration of their calls to one another but struggle…
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Russia to Launch Space Station Rescue Mission to Bring Astronauts Home
The capsule that carried three astronauts to orbit was damaged in December and will be replaced by another Soyuz spacecraft.
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In Brazilian Caves, She Wields a Penislike Organ to Gather Sperm
Scientists studied the muscles that make a female-male role reversal possible in a group of insects.
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A.I. Is Becoming More Conversant. But Will It Get More Honest?
On a recent afternoon Jonas Thiel, a socioeconomics major at a college in northern Germany, spent more than an hour…