A Dream of Clean Energy at a Very High Price
If a fusion experiment in France succeeds, it could shape the power plants of the future and contribute greatly to reducing planet-warming emissions.
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Wonders of a Marine National Monument
A research cruise in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument produced video of alien-looking deep sea life.
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Hope Springs Early, but Not Eternal, for the Deadnettle — or for Us
A naturalist in England found the early-blooming plant had moved up its schedule by nearly two months — a foreboding sign of a warming climate.
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They Mixed Science, Art and Costume Parties to Reveal Mysteries of the Sea
The expeditions of William Beebe and his coed Department of Tropical Research are remembered at an upcoming show at The Drawing Center in New York.
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Photo CreditMark Wilson/The Boston Globe, via Getty Images Waking From Hibernation, the Hard Work of Spring Begins
Emerging from the torpor of winter means a busy spring for these bears, bees, bats and squirrels.
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Photo CreditIan Webster and Peter Jenniskens Visualizing the Cosmic Streams That Spew Meteor Showers
Researchers recorded more than 300,000 meteoroid trajectories since 2010 to depict the drifting paths of meteor showers that Earth passes through.
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Photo CreditDmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times Who Killed the Iceman? Clues Emerge in a Very Cold Case
Using a wealth of new scientific information, a seasoned homicide detective has developed a theory in a death 5,300 years ago.
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Photo CreditBaron et al./Nature Shaking Up the Dinosaur Family Tree
A Ph.D candidate and a computer program that took five minutes to run may upend the dinosaur classification system that has been used for more than a century.
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Photo CreditSorokowski et al./Nature A Scholarly Sting Operation Shines a Light on ‘Predatory’ Journals
A group of researchers created a ruse to draw attention to the seamy side of open-access journals, some of which will publish just about anything for a fee.
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Photo CreditNick Ut/Associated Press Headed North, Sandhill Cranes Squeeze In Where They Can
The Platte River in Nebraska is an important layover for hundreds of thousands of the birds as they head toward their summer homes.
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Photo CreditEuropean Space Agency How Comet 67P’s Face Changed During Its Trip Around the Sun
During the two years that the Rosetta spacecraft stalked the comet, it observed cliffs that collapsed, boulders that moved and eruptions of dust and gas.
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Photo CreditJama Pantel Bluebonnet Season Came Early in Texas This Spring
Flowering plants that are blue are rare in nature. But Texas bluebonnets put on an annual show in pastures, parks and highway medians.
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Photo CreditPhotographs from Getty Images Ancestral Climates May Have Shaped Your Nose
A study led by Penn State researchers found more evidence of the relationship between nose shape and the climate where a person’s ancestors lived.
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Photo CreditMarty Melville/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images A Search for Clues to What Causes Whale Strandings
Researchers develop a model they hope can be used to understand how dolphins and whales react physiologically to threats from predators and people.
