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Trilobites: What a Scientist Learned From Studying the ‘Synchronized Swimming of Sea Monkeys’ Tiny crustaceans complete a massive daily vertical migration in the world’s oceans. New research suggests their commute may play an important role in the health of the planet.... Pubdate: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 19:57:46 GMT

Matter: Bodies Remodeled for a Life at Sea The Bajau, who spend most of their time on the ocean, are among the best divers in the world. Evolution is remaking them, a new study finds.... Pubdate: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:02:04 GMT

Trump’s NASA Nominee, Jim Bridenstine, Confirmed by Senate on Party-Line Vote The Oklahoma congressman’s nomination languished for more than seven months as senators raised objections to his record, and now additional concerns have been raised.... Pubdate: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 02:16:21 GMT

Robot Conquers One of the Hardest Human Tasks: Assembling Ikea Furniture Researchers in Singapore explained how they created a robot that could devise and execute a plan to put together an Ikea chair.... Pubdate: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 20:39:01 GMT

Trilobites: Diamonds in a Meteorite May Be a Lost Planet’s Fragments The space rock crashed in a desert in Sudan in 2008, and the flaws in its embedded minerals are like nothing seen in today’s solar system.... Pubdate: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 22:16:32 GMT

How NASA’s TESS Spacecraft Will Hunt Exoplanets NASA’s TESS spacecraft will spend two years searching the sky for nearby alien worlds.... Pubdate: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:52:22 GMT

Do You Know Which Dog Breeds Are in a Mutt? Scientists Want to Find Out A new online citizen science questionnaire is a brain teaser for people who think they’re good at guessing the breeds in the genetic makeup of a mutt.... Pubdate: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 13:00:05 GMT

ScienceTake: How a Common Beetle May Offer Deep Insights Into Evolution A molecular biologist has turned a childhood obsession with a common beetle into a scientific quest.... Pubdate: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 22:05:49 GMT

Basics: You Share Everything With Your Bestie. Even Brain Waves. Scientists have made astonishing discoveries about the nature and evolution of friendship. Without it, humans suffer significant physical and emotional damage.... Pubdate: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 22:32:14 GMT

Global Health: Ethicists Call for More Scrutiny of ‘Human-Challenge’ Trials A vaccine study in which subjects are to be deliberately infected with Zika is on pause after ethicists said it had “insufficient value.”... Pubdate: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 20:25:51 GMT

Ask Well: Can You Miss the Signs of Heart Disease or a Heart Attack? It’s not always easy to tell if you have heart disease or have had a heart attack.... Pubdate: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 10:01:03 GMT

Nonfiction: A Brand-New Version of Our Origin Story The Harvard geneticist David Reich details his groundbreaking research into ancient DNA in “Who We Are and How We Got Here.”... Pubdate: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 09:00:13 GMT

F.D.A. Panel Recommends Approval of Cannabis-Based Drug for Epilepsy Epidiolex was developed to treat two rare and devastating forms of the disease. It contains a chemical compound found in marijuana but not the one that makes people high.... Pubdate: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 23:32:07 GMT

Design Review: At This Museum Show, You’re Encouraged to Follow Your Nose “The Senses: Design Beyond Vision” at the Cooper Hewitt asks visitors to consider sound, taste and smell.... Pubdate: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 17:30:04 GMT

Hans Asperger Aided Nazi Child Euthanasia, Study Says The autism researcher collaborated with the Third Reich and actively assisted in the killing of disabled children, a new report says.... Pubdate: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 18:47:33 GMT

E. Coli Outbreak Tied to Romaine Lettuce Expands to 16 States At least 53 people have been infected so far, and more than half have been hospitalized.... Pubdate: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 21:55:10 GMT

Frenchman Is First in World to Get 2 Full Face Transplants Jérôme Hamon, a bookseller who has a genetic disease, underwent a second transplant after his body rejected the first because he had taken an antibiotic for a cold.... Pubdate: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 04:00:39 GMT

As Opioid Prescriptions Fall, Prescriptions for Drugs to Treat Addiction Rise New data suggests progress in efforts to curb the epidemic but raises questions about whether tightened prescribing may be leading some people to heroin and fentanyl.... Pubdate: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 21:32:08 GMT

Damage to Great Barrier Reef From Global Warming Is Irreversible, Scientists Say A huge heat wave killed 30 percent of the reef’s coral in 2016, and continuously high temperatures are preventing its recovery.... Pubdate: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 07:13:55 GMT

San Francisco Earthquake Risks: Questions and Answers Our correspondent in San Francisco answers readers’ questions about the risks facing the Bay Area when the Big One hits.... Pubdate: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 11:24:23 GMT

Climate Lawsuits, Once Limited to the Coasts, Jump Inland Local governments in California and New York City have sued oil and gas giants. Now Boulder and two Colorado counties have joined the fight.... Pubdate: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 19:38:47 GMT

Pursuits: A Birder’s Paradise in Zimbabwe One of the greatest concentrations of birds of prey in the world can be found among the towering rock formations and thick forests of Matobo National Park.... Pubdate: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:00:11 GMT

Feature: Can Dirt Save the Earth? Agriculture could pull carbon out of the air and into the soil — but it would mean a whole new way of thinking about how to tend the land.... Pubdate: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:00:06 GMT

Australia Diary: Weathering the Weather Growing up in Queensland means understanding the difference between hot, stinking hot and unbearably hot.... Pubdate: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 07:50:41 GMT

How This Beetle Evolved to Mimic Ants At least 12 types of rove beetle have evolved to convince ants and termites that it is one of them, all the while stealing their food and eating their young.... Pubdate: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 20:44:47 GMT

Trilobites: New York Mice Are Crawling With Dangerous Bacteria and Viruses Columbia University researchers analyzed feces from city mice and found bacteria, drug-resistant bugs and viruses never seen before.... Pubdate: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 21:32:12 GMT

Mind: Antidepressants and Withdrawal: Readers Tell Their Stories Nearly 9,000 readers wrote to The Times to talk about their use of antidepressants. Here’s what we learned.... Pubdate: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 11:51:43 GMT

Nonfiction: Freeman Dyson’s Life, Through His Letters In “Maker of Patterns,” the renowned physicist presents his correspondence, revealing observations about the great minds of the 20th century.... Pubdate: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 09:00:07 GMT

Watch as NASA and SpaceX Launch TESS, a Planet-Hunting Satellite The spacecraft will scan the sky for planets orbiting nearby star systems, another step in the long search for signs of life in the Milky Way. The launch on Wednesday was postponed from Monday.... Pubdate: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 22:54:35 GMT

Lung Cancer Patients Live Longer With Immune Therapy Adding immunotherapy to standard chemo treatments can halve the risk of death for people with the most common type of lung cancer, a new study shows.... Pubdate: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 00:35:21 GMT

Freight Train Kills 4 Elephants in India, Including a Calf As mining and development projects shrink the country’s forests, animals in search of food have been forced to wander farther from their natural habitats.... Pubdate: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:45:37 GMT

Friendship’s Dark Side: ‘We Need a Common Enemy’ Friendship generally is regarded as an unalloyed good. But scientists have found it also can be a conspiracy, a way to separate “us” from “them.”... Pubdate: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:00:04 GMT

Retro Report: A Drug to End Addiction? Scientists Are Working on It. Researchers are studying a promising drug that could block the delivery of opioids from blood to brain, giving addicts a path to recovery.... Pubdate: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 22:00:04 GMT

206 Million Eggs Recalled Over Salmonella Fears An egg farm in Hyde County, N.C., is the likely source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened 22 people. Eggs from the farm may have reached nine states, officials said.... Pubdate: Sun, 15 Apr 2018 22:01:43 GMT

Maralinga Journal: Australia’s Least Likely Tourist Spot: A Test Site for Atom Bombs “Yes, there is still radiation here,” Australia’s only nuclear tour guide says of Maralinga, where the Australian and British governments dropped seven bombs between 1956 and 1963.... Pubdate: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 07:08:17 GMT

Trilobites: Gray Ghosts, the Last Caribou in the Lower 48 States, Are ‘Functionally Extinct’ The herd of southern mountain caribou, the last in the contiguous United States, has dwindled to three animals. Conservationists attribute the decline to development in Canada.... Pubdate: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 19:02:00 GMT

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