Science
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Big Rockets, Massive Asteroids and More Space Highlights for 2022
Spaceflight offered unceasing spectacles in 2021. At times, it was overwhelming. Two new rovers landed on Mars, one of them…
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NASA-Russia Alliance in Space Is Shaken by Events on Planet Earth
When Russia’s military blasted an old satellite to smithereens last month with an antisatellite missile, American officials reacted angrily ...
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James Webb Space Telescope Launches on Journey to See the Dawn of Starlight
The dreams and work of a generation of astronomers headed for an orbit around the sun on Saturday in the…
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How to Watch the James Webb Space Telescope Launch
If you wake up early enough on Saturday, you’ll be greeted with a spectacle of science and engineering: the launch…
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In an Evolutionary Race to Dominate the Seas, Ichthyosaurs Were the Winners
About 246 million years ago, a sea lizard with a skull the size of a grand piano died in the…
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In a Boston Court, a Harsh Spotlight Falls on a Heavyweight of Science
BOSTON — Charles Lieber, one of the country’s top research chemists, sat at the Harvard Police Department, trying to explain…
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Webb Telescope Prepares to Ascend, With an Eye Toward Our Origins
There are only a few times in the history of a species when it gains the know-how, the audacity and…
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In Orangutan Parenting, the Kids Can Get Their Own Dinner
Young orangutans seem much like human toddlers: amiable, endearing, lovable. But unlike human kids, when their mothers say no, they…
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How to Scare an Invasive Fish? A Menacing Robot Predator.
The mosquitofish is not a fussy creature: It can live in filthy bodies of water and has an undiscerning appetite.…
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NASA Mission Could Blast an Asteroid That Once Menaced Earth
First it punched an asteroid. Now, a NASA spacecraft’s rampage may continue and it could blast a hole in another…