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Final trial results confirm that CureVac’s mRNA vaccine is far less protective than others.

Visitors on Mars Send New Views to Earth

A New View of the Auroras All Over Mars

Over 200 Million Years Ago, Nature Called. It Was Full of Beetles.

Scientists detect black holes devouring neutron stars

Scientists detect black holes devouring neutron stars

The Sound of One Walrus Clapping

Peering Under Vermeers Without Peeling Off the Paint

The Largest Comet Ever Found Is Making Its Move Into a Sky Near You

NOAA designates part of Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan as sanctuary for shipwrecks

NOAA designates part of Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan as sanctuary for shipwrecks

Discovery of ‘Dragon Man’ Skull in China May Add Species to Human Family Tree

These Typefaces Are Truly Puzzling

A Coronavirus Epidemic Hit 20,000 Years Ago, New Study Finds

Cool Fossils: Alaska Digs Reveal Dinosaurs’ Arctic Lives

The Hills Are Alive With the Flows of Physics

Some mysteriously deleted early virus sequences haven been recovered by Seattle researcher.

Orchestras can perform more safely if they’re open to a bit of musical chairs, a new study shows.

Some mysteriously deleted early virus sequences recovered by Seattle researcher.

Ei-ichi Negishi, Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, Dies at 85

Venus Lacks Plate Tectonics. But It Has Something Much More Quirky.

When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid From a Clamp, That’s a Moray

Why Geology Is Our Destiny

Edward Diener, Psychologist Known as Dr. Happiness, Dies at 74

Intelligent life probably exists on distant planets — even if we can’t make contact, astrophysicist says

Intact chicken egg from Byzantine era found in archaeological excavation in Israel

Intact chicken egg from Byzantine era found in archaeological excavation in Israel

A Mysterious Crater’s Age May Add Clues to the Dinosaur Extinction

On the Pointless of Pointy Shoes

The Biologist Who Fell to Earth

Chinese Astronauts Arrive at Space Station

They’re Furry and They Fly, and They Ruin Ancient Cave Art

The U.S. will spend $3 billion on developing antiviral pills to treat Covid-19.

Betelgeuse Merely Burped, Astronomers Conclude

Who’s Afraid of Big Numbers?

China to Launch Astronauts to Space Station: When to Watch

Richard R. Ernst, Nobelist Who Paved Way for M.R.I., Dies at 87

Lee Ross, Expert in Why We Misunderstand Each Other, Dies at 78

These Brittle Stars Have Thousands of ‘Pig Snouts’ on Each Arm

The C.D.C. designates the Delta version of the virus a ‘variant of concern.’

The C.D.C. says the Delta virus variant is now a ‘variant of concern.’

The C.D.C. names the contagious Delta virus is now a ‘variant of concern,’ the C.D.C. said.

The contagious Delta strain is now a ‘variant of concern,’ the C.D.C. said.

Deaths of younger people from Covid-19 have upended Hispanic American families.

Ei-ichi Negishi, Nobel-winning chemist who made ‘art in a test tube,’ dies at 85

Mushballs and a Great Blue Spot: What Lies Beneath Jupiter’s Pretty Clouds

Novavax offers the U.S. a fourth vaccine. But it might be needed more elsewhere.

Cosmologist Stephen Hawking’s office and archives at Cambridge to be preserved by British museum group

Covid-Sniffing Dogs Are Accurate but Face Hurdles for Widespread Use

Timelapse shows Pine Island glacier collapsing