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Newly Named NASA Spacecraft Will Aim Straight for the Sun

Life on Mars: At Home in the Habitat

Life on Mars

New York Blood Center Reaches a Deal to Help Care for Research Chimps

Drug Lobbyists’ Battle Cry Over Prices: Blame the Others

Challenging Mainstream Thought About Beauty’s Big Hand in Evolution

In Antarctica, Scientists Are Lured to a Frozen Desert

In Nature, Cockroaches Don’t Die Belly Up

Manhattanhenge 2017: Where and When to Watch

Somehow, This Fish Fathered a Near Clone of Itself

Michael Bliss, Historian Who Dispelled Myths of Insulin’s Discovery, Dies at 76

NASA Spacecraft Finds a Chaotic Dance of Storms at Jupiter’s Poles

The Science Behind the Flamingo’s One-Legged Stance

Feather Fancy

How Demands of Female Birds Changed the DNA of a Species

How Whales Became the Biggest Animals on the Planet

Inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

U.S. Forests Shifting With Climate Change

Freeze-Dried Mouse Sperm Survives Trip in Space

Experts Say North Korea Is Working to Increase the Force of Its Nuclear Arms

A Taste for Poison in Warmer Climates?

In ‘Enormous Success,’ Scientists Tie 52 Genes to Human Intelligence

Some Social Scientists Are Tired of Asking for Permission

An ‘Awesome’ View at America’s First Offshore Wind Farm

Genetic Tidying Up Made Humped Bladderworts Into Carnivorous Plants

Spotting Mysterious Twinkles on Earth From a Million Miles Away

Ladybugs Pack Wings and Engineering Secrets in Tidy Origami Packages

Between a T. Rex’s Powerful Jaws, Bones of Its Prey Exploded

Nearly a Decade Nursing? Study Pierces Orangutans’ Mother-Child Bond

Under Fire, Climate Scientists Unite With Lawyers to Fight Back

Brenda Milner, Eminent Brain Scientist, Is ‘Still Nosy’ at 98

How Bees Freshen Up

Invaders From the New World

Why Honeybees Are Good at Grooming (It’s All in the Hair)

NASA Denies Trump’s Request to Send Astronauts Past the Moon on New Rocket

Rare White Wolf Killed in Yellowstone Park Was Shot Illegally

A Gene Mystery: How Are Rats With No Y Chromosome Born Male?

Humans Have a Poor Sense of Smell? It’s Just a Myth

To Simulate Climate Change, Scientists Build Miniature Worlds

Broken Tulips: ‘That Last Gasp of Beauty Before Death’

Why Trappist-1’s 7 Worlds Don’t Scatter: A Harmony Is at Work

Baby Louie, the Dinosaur Orphan, Finds Its Species at Last

Capturing the Aftermath of a Star Collision 1,900 Years Ago

A Light for Science, and Cooperation, in the Middle East

Geniuses Wanted: NASA Challenges Coders to Speed Up Its Supercomputer

Cuttlefish Battle

Battle of Cuttlefish Caught on Tape

Oysters, Despite What You’ve Heard, Are Always in Season

Dr. Julius Youngner, Polio Vaccine Pioneer, Dies at 96

Why Two Volcanoes in Hawaii Are So Close, but So Different