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Knickers the Steer Really Is Big. But Most Us Don’t Know a Cow’s Normal Size.

A Famous Alpha Wolf’s Daughter, Spitfire, Is Killed by a Hunter

600 Million Years Ago, the First Scavengers Lurked in Dark Ocean Gardens

Yes, the Octopus Is Smart as Heck. But Why?

‘Major’ damage, tsunami warning issued after severe magnitude-7 earthquake in Alaska

‘Gene drive’ research to fight diseases can proceed cautiously, U.N. group decides

Rough Drafts of Richard Feynman’s Ideas Head to Auction

Meet the Spiders That Feed Milk to Their Young

NASA’s Return to the Moon to Start With Private Companies’ Spacecraft

In a first, NASA is outsourcing its next moon lander to a private company

These spider moms feed their babies super-nutritious spider milk

Astrophysicists count all the starlight in the universe

China Halts Work by Scientist Who Says He Edited Babies’ Genes

What Makes That Steer So Big? Cattle’s Mysterious Genes

The Cockroach Karate Kick That Fends Off Wasps

The Wasp Wants a Zombie. The Cockroach Says ‘No’ With a Karate Kick.

Watch Live: InSight To Land on Mars

New Zealand beach carpeted by dead whales after mass stranding

Upwind wind farms can reduce the energy production of downwind neighbor turbines

This Is the Way the Paper Crumples

Scientist’s claim of gene-edited babies creates uproar

NASA’s Mars InSight Landing: Back to the Red Planet Once Again

Ahead of the InSight Landing, Look Back at a Busy Year for Mars News

This Mars explorer will probe the planet’s history — if it can land in one piece

How to Land on Mars

A Memory From Out of the Blue

Beneath Antarctica’s Ice Is a Graveyard of Dead Continents

Visitors From the Ocean’s Twilight Zone

A silent, electric plane inspired by Star Trek has no moving parts

How to dissect your Thanksgiving dinosaur

A Metropolis of 200 Million Termite Mounds Was Hidden in Plain Sight

The Key to Stopping the Illegal Wildlife Trade: China

Steven Pinker Thinks the Future Is Looking Bright

Honestly, Some Questions Are Better Left Unanswered

Survivor

Where’s Our Warp Drive to the Stars?

Does the Universe Still Need Einstein?

Will We Survive Climate Change?

How Will We Outsmart A.I. Liars?

How Did We Get to Be Human?

Essay: The Experiments Are Fascinating. But Nobody Can Repeat Them.

Hope for the Great Apes, and Maybe for Us

‘Enough Is Enough’: Science, Too, Has a Problem With Harassment

11 Things We’d Really Like to Know

Some Good News, and a Hard Truth, About Science

NASA Mars 2020 Rover Gets a Landing Site: A Crater That Contained a Lake

Scientists stuffed balloons into dead wombats to learn why they poop cubes

NASA’s next Mars rover will look for signs of life on an ancient crater lake

This ‘wonder of the Earth’ is the size of Minnesota and built by bugs

The Kilogram is Dead. Long Live the Kilogram!