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‘Failure to Thrive,’ or a Failure to Investigate?

Can Parrots Converse? Polly Says That’s the Wrong Question.

A New Tree of Flowering Plants? For Spring? Groundbreaking.

From Ancient Charcoal, Hints of Wildfires to Come

Tuna Crabs, Neither Tuna Nor Crabs, Are Swarming Near San Diego

Why You Can Hear the Temperature of Water

A Cicada’s Guide to Periodical Romance

Our Reporter on the Cicada Lifecycle

Orangutan, Heal Thyself

What Makes a Society More Resilient? Frequent Hardship.

Killer Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks

Beth Linker Is Turning Good Posture on Its Head

Cicadas Are Emerging Now. How Do They Know When to Come Out?

Watch the Lyrid Meteor Shower Reach Its Peak

Comet Pons-Brooks Is Having Its Last Hurrah

What Makes Tiny ‘Water Bears’ So Tough? They Quickly Fix Broken DNA.

No ‘Hippie Ape’: Bonobos Are Often Aggressive, Study Finds

She Dreams of Pink Planets and Alien Dinosaurs

Can’t Find Eclipse Glasses? Here’s What to Do.

Anticipation and Anxiety Build Ahead of the Total Solar Eclipse

The Eclipse That Ended a War and Shook the Gods Forever

A seismograph near New York City captured the moment of the earthquake.

Back in the ’90s, This Eclipse Webcast Put the Cosmos on Demand

How a Snake Uses Its Sense of Smell

The Eclipse Was So Nice, They’re Doing It Twice

A Fiery Finale for a Rocket That Brings the Heat

A Lunar Eclipse Warms Up the Moon for April’s Solar Eclipse

It’s a Golden Age for Shipwreck Discoveries. Why?

Life After Asteroid Bennu

Abel Prize Awarded for Studies of Universe’s Randomness

A Columbia Surgeon’s Study Was Pulled. He Kept Publishing Flawed Data.

What is Starship?

Here is what to know about Thursday’s SpaceX launch.

Subterranean ‘Baby Dragons’ Are Revealed to Sneak to the Surface

Scientists Discover 100 New Marine Species in New Zealand

Good News and Bad News for Astronomers’ Biggest Dream

Scientists Create Elephant Stem Cells in the Lab

Daddy Longlegs Have Been Hiding Extra Eyes From Us

It’s the Cat’s Meow but You Just Don’t Understand

Why Leap Day Is Really About Party Planning

There are more private landers headed to the moon.

These Whales Still Use Their Vocal Cords. But How?

What Is a Species, Anyway?

Poison Frogs Have a Strange Behavior That Scientists Seek to Explain

An Asteroid Wiped Out Dinosaurs. Did It Help Birds Flourish?

Fragments of Asteroid With Mystery Origin Are Found Outside Berlin

It Started as Winter Break. It Ended With a Doomed Moon Mission.

A Two-Ton Lifeguard That Saved a Young Pup

He Hunts Sloppy Scientists. He’s Finding Lots of Prey.

The Dogs That Live Longest, by a Nose