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Thanksgiving Got Shorter After the 2016 Election, Study Says. You Can Guess Why.

A River of Warblers: ‘the Greatest Birding Day of My Life’

How to Decide Whether Ailing Chimps Get Moved to a Sanctuary

Manhattanhenge 2018: When and Where to Watch

Kilauea Volcano’s Lava Fields Offer Scientists a Portal to Mars

No Lungs, No Gills: How Do Sea Spiders Breathe?

Breathe Deep: How the Antarctic Sea Spider Gets Oxygen

Hooking the Dinosaur of Fish

Coyotes Conquered North America. Now They’re Heading South.

Only Two of These Rhinos Survive. Scientists See Promise in Resurrecting Them.

Using Medicine and Science to Improve the Quality of Life

Taking on Climate Change

Big Discovery in a Tiny Mammal-Like Skull Found Under a Dinosaur’s Foot

Is This the World’s Most Diverse National Park?

Every Cell in Your Body Has the Same DNA. Except It Doesn’t.

Every 202,500 Million Years, the Earth Wanders in a New Direction

Alien Asteroids Are Here. Get Used to Them.

Lanternflies Eat Everything in Sight. The U.S. Is Looking Delicious.

The Thing Inside Your Cells That Might Determine How Long You Live

The Baby’s Hand Was Mummified. Why Wasn’t the Rest of Its Body?

A Very Hungry Black Hole Is Found, Gorging on Stars

In Virtual Reality, How Much Body Do You Need?

Scientists Made Snails Remember Something That Never Happened to Them

Did Asteroids Bring Water to Earth?

How Asteroids May Have Brought Water to Earth

An Ice Core Reveals the Economic Health of the Roman Empire

Tiny Brains of Homo Naledi Had Complex Features

As D.I.Y. Gene Editing Gains Popularity, ‘Someone Is Going to Get Hurt’

Europa, Jupiter’s Ocean Moon, May Shoot Plumes of Water Into Space

Black Rhinos Roam Chad for the First Time in 46 Years

Where Have All the Gypsy Moths Gone?

Frog-Killing Fungus Found to Have Origins on Korean Peninsula

This Asteroid Shouldn’t Be Where Astronomers Found It

‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Is Still the ‘Ultimate Trip’

The Green-Feathered Terror That Slaughtered Bats in Spain

In Ancient Skeletons, Scientists Discover a Modern Foe: Hepatitis B

How the Father of Computer Science Decoded Nature’s Mysterious Patterns

Listening to Elephants With Earthquake-Monitoring Tools

Ships Unearthed in Virginia Offer Glimpse of Colonial Era

InSight Will Plumb the Depths of Mars

Watch NASA’s InSight Spacecraft Launch for Mars

Butterflies: Riders on the Storm

A Census of Gorillas and Chimpanzees Finds More Than Expected

The Very First Animal Appeared Amid an Explosion of DNA

Gassy Earthquakes Near Istanbul May Pose New Risks to Region

An Ancient Horse Is Unearthed in a Utah Backyard

Gaia’s Map of 1.3 Billion Stars Makes for a Milky Way in a Bottle