The ExoMars Spacecraft Approaches the Red Planet
The ExoMars spacecraft released a lander on Sunday.
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CreditCyril Ndegeya/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Nations, Fighting Powerful Refrigerant That Warms Planet, Reach Landmark Deal
A binding accord on a heat-trapping chemical used in air-conditioners and refrigerators could have a greater impact on global warming than the Paris pact of 2015.
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CreditEuropean Pressphoto Agency China Astronauts to Attempt Nation’s Longest Space Mission
After launching from the Gobi Desert on Monday, the two astronauts will stay on an orbiting lab for 30 days — a national record for staying in space.
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Can This Caterpillar Predict Winter Weather? Probably Not Very Well
Scientists doubt these woolly worms can forecast the future, but that won’t stop people from racing them in North Carolina this weekend.
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CreditRob Kim/Getty Images Lessons in the Delicate Art of Confronting Offensive Speech
Many people are left speechless when a companion uses ethnic, sexist or racist slurs. But researchers say there are ways to cut such remarks short.
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CreditSilver Screen Collection/Getty Images Metaphorically Speaking, Men Are Expected to be Struck by Genius, Women to Nurture It
Research into the metaphors used to describe inventions found that they carried implicit associations about men and women’s stereotypical gender roles.
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CreditLexey Swall for The New York Times Katharine Hayhoe, a Climate Explainer Who Stays Above the Storm
“If you begin a conversation with, ‘You’re an idiot,’ that’s the end of the conversation, too,” says the Texas Tech scientist, an evangelical Christian spreading a gospel on warming.
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Credit Jaws: The Tale of the Fearsome Stag Beetle
The bigger the mandibles, the more likely a male is to defeat a challenger for the attention of a female on a rotting log.
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CreditKatie Orlinsky for The New York Times Learning From Dogs as They Sniff Out Their World
A walk in the park with an author and her pet also gives insight as to why canines avidly sniff things like toes, rears and corpses.
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CreditRon Miller Distant Ringed Object Could Be ‘Saturn on Steroids’
A potential planet detected by astronomers probably has rings that spin in the opposite direction of the object’s spin around its sun.
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CreditNicole Fuller/Sayo Art for UT Austin The Oldest Bird Voice Box Ever Found
A researcher’s lucky discovery of a fossilized vocal organ offers new insights into sounds heard when dinosaurs ruled the world.
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CreditRobin Moore Jamaican Rock Iguanas Get a Shot at a New Home in the Wild
A decision on the siting of a seaport could improve the prospects of the restoration of the lizards, which were once believed to be extinct.
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CreditKemal Jufri for The New York Times In Experiment, Apes Have Humans Figured Out
After watching a scenario between an actor and a man in a King Kong suit, apes appeared to know what the actor believed.
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CreditDavid Cortes Serey/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images What 50 Years of Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions Look Like
A new interactive app illustrates the connection between the natural disasters and Earth’s hot interior.
