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A Population That Pollutes Itself Into Extinction (and It’s Not Us)

How a Rose Blooms: Its Genome Reveals the Traits for Scent and Color

This Fungus Borrowed From Ancient Bacteria to Defy Gravity

Hints of Human Evolution in Chimpanzees That Endure a Savanna’s Heat

A New Spider Family Tree Tries to Untangle the Evolution of Webs

A Massacre Frozen in Time: Skeletons in Sweden Reveal Ancient Attack

Why It Seems Like Everyone Is Always Angry With You

Setting Fires and Restoring an American Landscape

These Ants Explode, but Their Nests Live to See Another Day

What Lies Beneath Jupiter’s Great Red Spot?

Her Daughter’s Diagnosis Made Her Work as a Scientist Personal

Senate Confirms Jim Bridenstine, Trump’s NASA Nominee, on Party-Line Vote

Bodies Remodeled for a Life at Sea

Diamonds in a Meteorite May Be a Lost Planet’s Fragments

Robot Conquers One of the Hardest Human Tasks: Assembling Ikea Furniture

Do You Know Which Dog Breeds Are in a Mutt? Scientists Want to Find Out

How This Beetle Evolved to Mimic Ants

New York Mice Are Crawling With Dangerous Microbes

How a Common Beetle May Offer Deep Insights Into Evolution

TESS, NASA’s Latest Planet Hunter, Is Launching

How NASA’s TESS Spacecraft Will Hunt Exoplanets

Friendship’s Dark Side: ‘We Need a Common Enemy’

You Share Everything With Your Bestie. Even Brain Waves.

Gray Ghosts, the Last Caribou in the Lower 48 States, Are ‘Functionally Extinct’

E. Coli Linked to Chopped Romaine Lettuce Infects People in 11 States

Trillions Upon Trillions of Viruses Fall From the Sky Each Day

The Evolution of the Eyebrow

Sea Turtles Use Magnetic Fields to Find Their Birthplace Beach

Threatened: A Green-Haired Turtle That Can Breathe Through Its Genitals

64 Pounds of Trash Killed a Sperm Whale in Spain, Scientists Say

All by Itself, the Humble Sweet Potato Colonized the World

Farmland Birds in France Are in Steep Decline

Clown Fish Need More Energy to Live in a Bleached Home

Why Scientists Are Battling Over Pleasure

That Python in the Pet Store? He May Have Been Snatched From the Wild

It’s the Latest in Conservation Tech. And It Wants to Suck Your Blood.

A Fossilized Finger Bone May Be From the Earliest Humans on the Arabian Peninsula

Are Men Smarter at Science Than Women? Men Certainly Think So, Study Shows

In Your Bathroom, the Scum of the Earth

The Crystals That May Have Helped Vikings Navigate Northern Seas

How Do You Count Endangered Species? Look to the Stars

Baleen Whales Intermingled as They Evolved, and Share DNA With Distant Cousins

The Isle of Skye Once Was a Dinosaur Playground

The Story Behind Japan’s Bathing Monkeys

Hot Springs Lower Stress in Japan’s Popular Bathing Monkeys

The F.B.I. and the Mystery of the Mummy’s Head

At 12, His Science Video Went Viral. At 14, He Fears He Was Too Rude.

China’s Space Station Has Finally Fallen Back to Earth