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Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert With Google Earth, archaeologists have uncovered strange stone structures that may have been built by nomadic tribes in ancient lava fields.... Pubdate: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 15:32:51 GMT

Trilobites: Meet the Overcompensators, Plants That Get Tougher and Meaner When Attacked Damaging some plants sets off a molecular chain of events that causes them to grow back bigger and produce more seeds and chemical defenses simultaneously.... Pubdate: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 21:12:01 GMT

Native American Secrets Lie Buried in Huge Shell Mounds Archaeologists in Maine are working to unearth artifacts buried for centuries in shell middens. But sea levels are rising, eroding the ancient sites.... Pubdate: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 22:09:39 GMT

Dogs Pay Attention to Your Looks That puppy dog face your pet makes often is a reaction to your own expression, a new study finds.... Pubdate: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 21:31:16 GMT

Volcanoes Helped Violent Revolts Erupt in Ancient Egypt During the Ptolemaic Period, fluctuations in Nile flooding triggered by eruptions may have led to violent uprisings, researchers report.... Pubdate: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 19:32:57 GMT

LIGO Detects Fierce Collision of Neutron Stars for the First Time Seen and heard, the fireball is a stunning breakthrough into kilonovas, bursts of energy believed to produce metals like gold and uranium in the universe.... Pubdate: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 20:17:34 GMT

Wolf Puppies Are Adorable. Then Comes the Call of the Wild. No matter how you raise a wolf, you can’t turn it into a dog. To find out why, scientists have to spend a lot of time cuddling and testing puppies.... Pubdate: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 14:46:31 GMT

Ride a Weather Balloon Into (Near) Space Take a trip into the stratosphere on one of NOAA’s weather balloons. It rises 21 miles into the sky collecting data before bursting and falling back to Earth.... Pubdate: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 09:00:01 GMT

The E.P.A.’s Top 10 Toxic Threats, and Industry’s Pushback The Environmental Protection Agency published toxic chemicals it will evaluate first under a new law. Here is a look at those chemicals, how they are used and the health threats.... Pubdate: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 12:16:13 GMT

Trump Rules: Why Has the E.P.A. Shifted on Toxic Chemicals? An Industry Insider Helps Call the Shots A scientist who worked for the chemical industry now shapes policy on hazardous chemicals. Within the E.P.A., there is fear that public health is at risk. (At right, a signing ceremony for new rules on toxic chemicals.)... Pubdate: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 14:06:23 GMT

After Making Mugabe a ‘Good-Will Ambassador,’ W.H.O. Chief Is ‘Rethinking’ It The decision outraged medical professionals, rights groups and others who took to social media to call it an “insult” and “a sick joke.”... Pubdate: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 09:57:33 GMT

Creighton Hale, 93, Inventor of Little League Helmet, Dies A physiologist and longtime Little League executive, Mr. Hale worked hard to make baseball safer for young players.... Pubdate: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 23:59:11 GMT

I.R.S. Says It Will Reject Tax Returns that Lack Health Insurance Disclosure The agency says it won’t accept individual tax returns that don’t meet requirements under the Affordable Care Act.... Pubdate: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 12:53:13 GMT

Mind: How Fiction Becomes Fact on Social Media Platforms like Facebook and Twitter offer up memes designed to feel real, if only for an instant — long enough for our minds to make a false connection.... Pubdate: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 08:12:40 GMT

New Study Casts Doubt on Diagnosis of Adult-Onset A.D.H.D. Adults said to develop symptoms of A.D.H.D. may instead have substance abuse or mood problems, researchers concluded.... Pubdate: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 21:32:59 GMT

Take a Number: Women Are More Likely to Address High Blood Pressure Men and women develop hypertension at roughly the same rates, but men do not get it under control until much later in life, researchers find.... Pubdate: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 17:18:49 GMT

Using DNA to Sketch What Victims Look Like; Some Call It Science Fiction DNA phenotyping uses genes from human remains to give police an idea of what an unknown person looked like. Critics say the technology isn’t ready for crime-fighting.... Pubdate: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 16:38:40 GMT

Ebola’s Legacy: Children With Cataracts Cataracts usually afflict the old, but doctors in Africa have been shocked to find them in Ebola survivors as young as 5.... Pubdate: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 23:19:50 GMT

F.D.A. Approves Second Gene-Altering Treatment for Cancer The treatment will be for adults with aggressive non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma when chemotherapy has failed. It re-engineers a patient’s own cells to fight cancer.... Pubdate: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 18:48:01 GMT

Review: ‘Jane’ Is an Absorbing Trip Into the Wild With Jane Goodall Brett Morgen’s documentary tells her story through footage of Ms. Goodall’s interactions with chimpanzees in what is now Tanzania.... Pubdate: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 19:45:15 GMT

New Talks on Paris Climate Pact Are Set, and That’s Awkward for U.S. International delegates will gather next month to discuss implementing the Paris agreement, and American negotiators will be there even though the United States has said it will quit the pact.... Pubdate: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 21:51:15 GMT

How Dennis Overbye Makes Space-Time Relatable From exosolar planets to colliding stars, The Times’s cosmic affairs correspondent introduces readers to the universe they live in.... Pubdate: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 21:25:52 GMT

Patents for Restasis Are Invalidated, Opening Door to Generics The ruling, by a federal judge in Texas, is a setback for Allergan, which had transferred the patents to a Mohawk tribe in order to protect them.... Pubdate: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 00:32:57 GMT

It Was a Universe-Shaking Announcement. But What Is a Neutron Star Anyway? Here are answers to some questions you might have about the discovery that was announced on Monday.... Pubdate: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 21:24:51 GMT

Raising Concerns About a Widely Used Test to Measure Fertility New research shows that the number of eggs a woman has left doesn’t necessarily predict her ability to conceive naturally.... Pubdate: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 18:28:10 GMT

Detecting a Kilonova Explosion For the first time, astronomers have seen and heard a pair of neutron stars collide in a crucible of cosmic alchemy.... Pubdate: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 14:00:23 GMT

The New Health Care: How a Healthy Economy Can Shorten Life Spans In general, prosperity brings better health. But economic booms are also associated with air pollution, stress and car accidents.... Pubdate: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 22:32:49 GMT

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