Tag: Science
SpaceX Starship Launch Ends With a Dramatic Water Landing President-elect Donald J. Trump joined Elon Musk, as his company’s prototype moon and Mars rocket carried out a sixth test …
With DNA, Pompeii Narratives Take a Twist In 79 A.D., a volcanic eruption engulfed a town’s residents. They weren’t all who scientists thought, newly extracted genetic material suggests. By …
Uranus Might Have Experienced a Freak Event When Voyager 2 Visited Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which …
With DNA, Pompeii Narratives Take a Twist In 79 A.D., a volcanic eruption engulfed a town’s residents. They weren’t all who scientists thought, newly extracted genetic material suggests. By …
This Elephant Uses a Hose to Give Herself a Shower Every Day In the Berlin Zoo, Mary demonstrated another example of clever elephantine tool use while another animal exhibited …
With DNA, Pompeii Narratives Take a Twist In 79 A.D., a volcanic eruption engulfed a town’s residents. They weren’t all who scientists thought, newly extracted genetic material suggests. By …
Where There’s Joy in a Terror Bird In Colombia, a fossil-collecting rancher has found a giant, flightless killer from 13 million years ago — and a missing link to …
Richard A. Cash, Who Saved Millions From Dehydration, Dies at 83 He worked alongside another doctor to show that a simple rehydration therapy could check the ravages of cholera …
The Rebellious Scientist Who Made Kamala Harris The presidential candidate’s mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, was a breast cancer researcher whose egalitarian politics often bucked a patriarchal lab culture. By …
If You Think You Can Hold a Grudge, Consider the Crow The brainy birds carry big chips on their shoulders, scientists say. And some people who become subjects of …