Science
-
The Many Uses of CRISPR: Scientists Tell All
Smartphones, superglue, electric cars, video chat. When does the wonder of a new technology wear off? When you get so…
-
Not Just for the Birds: Avian Influenza Is Also Felling Wild Mammals
Something was wrong with the foxes. That was what callers to the Dane County Humane Society in Wisconsin kept saying…
-
Earth’s Largest Rodents Were Smaller Than We Once Thought
Modern rodents range in size from pygmy mice weighing less than an ounce to stocky capybaras pushing 175 pounds. But…
-
Chewed and Rolled: How Cats Make the Most of Their Catnip High
Cats, so often, are a mystery, even to those that know them best. Why do they sleep so much? Why…
-
How Many Languages Could a Child Speak?
If a newborn child grows up hearing people speaking in many different languages, will it later be able to speak…
-
Eavesdropping on the Secret Lives of Dolphins in New York Harbor
It’s a riddle. No one knows for sure why dolphins are being spotted more frequently and for longer periods in…
-
NASA Plans to Join U.F.O. Research Efforts
U.F.O.s almost certainly are not alien visitors buzzing Earth’s skies, but NASA is nonetheless financing a study that will look…
-
Mysteries Linger About Covid’s Origins, W.H.O. Report Says
In its first report, a team of international scientists assembled by the World Health Organization to advise on the origins…
-
How Anonymous Is Bitcoin, Really?
Alyssa Blackburn, a data scientist at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, has spent several years performing…
-
The World’s Largest Plant is a Self-Cloning Sea Grass in Australia
In Shark Bay, off the westernmost tip of Australia, meadows of sea grass carpet the ocean floor, undulating in the…