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Was That a Dropped Call From ET?

Cuttlefish Took Something Like a Marshmallow Test. Many Passed.

Will My Popcorn Explode?

The Year in Spaceflight

The Lasting Lessons of John Conway’s Game of Life

Eight-Armed Underwater Bullies: Watch Octopuses Punch Fish

How Did Mistletoe Get Into the Treetops?

Which Animal Best Embodies 2020?

The Wildest Animal News From 2020

A New Population of Blue Whales Was Discovered Hiding in the Indian Ocean

How Mink, Like Humans, Were Slammed by the Coronavirus

Ancient DNA Shows Humans Settled Caribbean in 2 Distinct Waves

In Mexico, Childbirth in Covid’s Shadow

Neptune’s Weird Dark Spot Just Got Weirder

A Winter Solstice, a Meteor Shower, Jupiter and Saturn Walk Into Your Night Sky

A Wolf Pup Mummy From the Ancient Arctic

Pythons Slithered Through Europe Before Coiling Around the World

To Study Blinking, a Scientist Needed a Literal Bird’s Eye View

This Solstice, Solace for the Darkness

More Mammals Are Hiding Their Secret Glow

Will Ghost Sharks Vanish Before Scientists Can Study Them?

Chinese Lunar Mission Returns to Earth

Jack Steinberger, Nobel Winner in Physics, Dies at 99

China Moon Mission Set to Land Rocks on Earth

He’s Too Quiet for His Mate to Hear Him. So He Makes a Megaphone.

One Wild Mink Near Utah Fur Farms Tests Positive for Virus

Did You Get the Coronavirus Vaccine, or Are You Planning To?

Fruit Flies Are Essential to Science. So Are the Workers Who Keep Them Alive.

How Selfish Are Plants? Let’s Do Some Root Analysis

Geminids Meteor Shower 2020: Watch It Peak in Night Skies

Snow Leopards Are the Latest Cats to Be Infected With the Coronavirus

How to Save Phallic Flowers From Being Inbred to Extinction

In Life, She Defied Alzheimer’s. In Death, Her Brain May Show How.

Israeli Group Announces Second Moonshot by 2024

SpaceX Starship Explodes During Test Flight

Watch SpaceX’s Starship Launch and Explode in Crash Landing

‘Heroes of the Future’: NASA Picks 18 Astronauts for Moon Mission Training

Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker

This Plant Evolved to Hide From a Predator. It Might Be Us.

Why Are Pandas Covering Themselves With Horse Manure?

How You Can Help Count and Conserve Native Bees

Jupiter and Saturn Head for Closest Visible Alignment in 800 Years

How Moderna’s Vaccine Works

How Pfizer’s Vaccine Works

Japan’s Journey to an Asteroid Ends With a Hunt in Australia’s Outback

This Unusual Bird Superpower Goes Back to the Dinosaur Extinction

Girl Is Born in Tennessee From Embryo Frozen for 27 Years

Chinese Spacecraft Launches From Moon, Starting Trip Back to Earth

A ‘Front-Row Seat’ to the Birth of a Comet

Watch the Moon Landing of China’s Chang’e-5 Spacecraft