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The Curious Case of the Caspian Sea’s Scars
What crafted these crisscrossing lines in the #Caspian Sea? It’s a question that had Norman Kuring, an oceanographer for NASA, scratching his head earlier this month when he first saw this satellite image […]
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What I Learned From Tickling Apes
Laughter? Now wait a minute! A real scientist should avoid any and all anthropomorphism, which is why hard-nosed colleagues often ask us to change our terminology. Why not call the […]
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Mars Mission Blasts Off From Kazakhstan
The ExoMars spacecraft consists of an orbiter that will measure methane and other gases in the Martian atmosphere and a lander that will study dust storms.
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Marine Life Thrives in Unlikely Place: Offshore Oil Rigs
The realization is adding momentum to efforts to convert some of the platforms into artificial reefs once they are decommissioned.
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Crows Clever Enough to Learn a Shell Game
New Caledonian crows had trouble finding food moved from one bowl to another, until they were trained to watch hands.
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Scientists Ponder the Prospect of Contagious Cancer
Imagine if cancer cells had the ability to press on to another body. A cancer like that would have the power to metastasize not just from organ to organ, but […]
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Seas Are Rising at Fastest Rate in Last 28 Centuries
Scientists reported Monday that flooding in coastal communities was largely a result of greenhouse gas emissions, and likely to grow worse.
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Gravitational Waves Detected, Confirming Einstein’s Theory
A team of scientists announced on Thursday that they had heard and recorded the sound of two black holes colliding a billion light-years away, a fleeting chirp that fulfilled the […]
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New Ways Into the Brain’s ‘Music Room’
M.I.T. researchers have devised a radical approach to brain imaging that reveals what past studies missed about neural responses to music.