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Newly Discovered Asteroid Passes Close to Earth

First detected just days ago, 2023 BU approached within 2,200 miles of our planet’s surface before moving on.
Jan. 26, 2023

How Rare Island Bunnies Do a Parasitic Plant’s Bidding

The world’s only wild black-furred rabbit has a very important job — distributing seeds for a parasitic plant.
Jan. 26, 2023

Recent Volcanic Activity on Jupiter’s Moon Io Is Confusing and Exciting Scientists

Recent strange activity around Jupiter’s volcanic moon, Io, confused and excited scientists.
Jan. 25, 2023

As the Colorado River Shrinks, Washington Prepares to Spread the Pain

The seven states that rely on the river for water are not expected to reach a deal on cuts. It appears the Biden administration will have to impose reductions.
Jan. 28, 2023

Biden Administration Bans Mining in Boundary Waters Wilderness

A 20-year moratorium on new mining activity for more than 225,000 acres of federal land in Minnesota could deal a fatal blow to a proposed Twin Metals copper-nickel mine.
Jan. 26, 2023 - Joe Biden

Biden Bans Roads, Logging in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest

The U.S. Forest Service rule restricts development on more than nine million acres in North America’s largest temperate rainforest, reversing a Trump decision.
Jan. 25, 2023 - Joe Biden

The Sierra Club Tries to Move Past John Muir, George Floyd and #MeToo

After a public reckoning and the departure of its executive director, the nation’s largest environmental organization has tapped Ben Jealous as its new leader.
Jan. 26, 2023

Where is Physics Headed (and How Soon Do We Get There)?

Two leading scientists discuss the future of their field.
Jan. 25, 2023

A ‘Big Night’ for Newts, and for a California Newt Brigade

Salamanders get a little help across the road from some two-legged friends in Northern California.
Jan. 24, 2023 - California

E.P.A. Struggles With Workload in Wake of Staff Exodus

Despite an injection of funding, the agency still has not recovered from an exodus of scientists and policy experts, both insiders and critics say.
Jan. 25, 2023

Earth’s Inner Core: A Shifting, Spinning Mystery’s Latest Twist

Researchers proposed a model with a 70-year rotation cycle of our planet’s iron heart, and report that we’re in the middle of one of its big shifts.
Jan. 23, 2023

What Do We Owe Lab Animals?

The standard ethical guidelines encourage minimizing the use of, and harm to, animals used in research. Some experts propose an additional courtesy: repayment.
Jan. 24, 2023

Bomb Cyclone? Or Just Windy with a Chance of Hyperbole?

When the barometer drops, the volume of ‘hyped words’ rises, and many meteorologists aren’t happy about it.
Jan. 18, 2023

Polar Vortex, Bomb Cyclone and Other Weather Terminology, Explained

A handy explanation of some of the newer climatological verbiage.
Jan. 18, 2023

The Toxin That Helps Oyster Mushrooms Devour Worm Flesh

That does not sound fun, guy.
Jan. 18, 2023

How to Watch the ‘Green Comet’ in Night Skies

The last time the comet got this close to Earth was during the Stone Age.
Jan. 23, 2023

2023 Space and Astronomy News: What to Expect

Solar eclipses, new rockets and new space telescopes are some of the ways that the year ahead will try to follow an exciting 2022 in orbit and beyond.
Jan. 3, 2023

It’s Turtles All the Way Down in the Fossil Record

How smushed shells could help to resolve paleontological mysteries.
Jan. 2, 2023

A New Puzzle Turns Earth Into a Rubik’s Cube, but More Complex

Continental Drift is one of Henry Segerman’s latest efforts to make mathematics “real.”
Jan. 1, 2023

In the Fight Over Gas Stoves, Meet the Industry’s Go-To Scientist

Longstanding research shows the health dangers of gas-burning ranges. Utilities are turning to Julie Goodman, a toxicologist with a firm whose work raises questions about the science.
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Covid Vaccines Targeting Omicron Should Be Standard, Panel Says

As advisers to the Food and Drug Administration endorsed ending one era of the Covid vaccination campaign, they also grappled with its future.
Jan. 26, 2023 - Covid

Are We Living in a Computer Simulation, and Can We Hack It?

A popular cosmological theory holds that the cosmos runs on quantum codes. So how hard could it be to tweak the supreme algorithm?
Jan. 17, 2023

What Happened to All of Science’s Big Breakthroughs?

A new study finds a steady drop since 1945 in disruptive feats as a share of the world’s booming enterprise in scientific and technological advancement.
Jan. 17, 2023

Snarl, You’re on Candid Camera

Wildlife cameras in Wisconsin are capturing interspecies encounters — and providing evidence that human activity might make such meetings more likely.
Jan. 16, 2023

Sync Your Calendar With the Solar System

Never miss an eclipse, a meteor shower, a rocket launch or any other astronomical and space event that’s out of this world.
Jan. 14, 2023

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