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Birds’ winter habits are shifting as climate, land use change

Male penguin pair, New York zoo’s first same-sex foster parents, doing ‘great job’ raising baby chick

Sky Watch: Look out for solitary Jupiter and brilliant Venus in early February

Orcas Are Able to Kill and Eat Blue Whales, Scientists Confirm

Two Simple Tricks That Help Owls Stay in Their New Homes

In Dog DNA, Small Size Has an Ancient Pedigree

With the James Webb Space Telescope, Humanity Did the Right Thing

SpaceX Rocket Part to Crash Into Moon 7 Years After Launch

Japanese Company Joins March Back to the Moon in 2022

This Ancient Crab Had Unusually Huge Eyes

NASA wants you . . . to look into the clouds

Charting an Omicron Infection

Bouncing Boulders Point to Quakes on Mars

Crows took over a Silicon Valley city. Officials hope green lasers will get them to leave.

Crows took over a Silicon Valley city. Officials hope green lasers will get them to leave.

Japan’s Monkey Queen Faces Challenge to Her Reign: Mating Season

Deborah Nickerson, Pioneering Genome Researcher, Dies at 67

Why Whales Don’t Choke

U.S. Drops Its Case Against M.I.T. Scientist Accused of Hiding China Links

A New Map of the Sun’s Local Bubble

Researchers find icefish colony the size of Malta in Antarctic waters

Beatrice Mintz, Groundbreaking Cancer Researcher, Dies at 100

‘Major Discovery’ Beneath Antarctic Seas: A Giant Icefish Breeding Colony

Shirley McGreal, Champion of Primates Under Threat, Dies at 87

How European Royals Once Shared Their Most Important Secrets

Richard Leakey, paleoanthropologist and protector of wildlife, dies at 77

Moon Cube Mystery: Chinese Rover Finds It’s Just a Rock

Why a Comet’s Head Is Green, but Its Tail Is Not

Every Pore on Your Face Is a Walled Garden

A small study suggests that widely used rapid tests may not detect Omicron for several days.

Dr. Ronald Weinstein, Telepathology Pioneer, Dies at 83

NASA thrilled: Webb Space Telescope deploys sun shield, evades most potential ‘single point failures’

Sonic boom rattles Pittsburgh as meteor explodes overhead

Two studies provide good news for the antiviral drug remdesivir.

Sky Watch: Venus and the Quadrantid meteors are among January’s highlights

Big Rockets, Massive Asteroids and More Space Highlights for 2022

Sync your calendar with the solar system

Meteor Showers That Will Peak in Night Skies in 2022

2022 Is Full of First Steps to the Moon