Science
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Conviction in a Former Playground for Kingpins Could Save African Wildlife
Hundreds of poachers are arrested each year for killing elephants, rhinos, pangolins and other animals in Africa. Yet the problem…
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How a Nuclear Bomb Could Save Earth From a Stealthy Asteroid
One day, astronomers may spot an asteroid months away from a cataclysmic rendezvous with Earth. Our only chance of survival…
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Russian Film Crew Wraps Space Station Shoot and Returns to Earth
A Russian actress and a film director landed safely on Earth early Sunday after spending 12 days aboard the International…
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NASA’s Lucy Launches on 12-Year Mission to Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids
NASA embarked on a 12-year mission to study a group of asteroids on Saturday with the launch of Lucy, a…
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To Learn Bees’ Secrets, Count Them One by One
All through late summer and early fall, Max McCarthy, a graduate student at Rutgers University, walked around wetlands in northern…
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Surprise Russian Thruster Firing Prompts Space Station Emergency
The International Space Station was briefly tilted out of its normal position in orbit on Friday during a test firing…
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Why NASA Is Launching a Robotic Archaeologist Named Lucy
NASA is scheduled on Saturday to launch a probe toward clusters of asteroids along Jupiter’s orbital path. They’re known as…
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How Hungry Sea Otters Affect the Sex Lives of Sea Grass
Jane Watson studied sea otters for decades, but it was in the 1990s that the ecologist in British Columbia observed…
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Newly Discovered Bat Viruses Give Hints to Covid’s Origins
In the summer of 2020, half a year into the coronavirus pandemic, scientists traveled into the forests of northern Laos…
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These Worms Left the Ocean Floor and Never Looked Back
The average scale worm trudges along the seafloor like a tiny armored tank. The worm’s overlapping scales shield its backside…