New Photo of Australia’s Sand-Swimming Northern Marsupial Mole
Indigenous rangers in Australia’s Western Desert got a rare close-up with the northern marsupial mole, which is tiny, light-colored and…
Werner Spitz, Forensic Expert in High-Profile Murders, Dies at 97
He figured in the examination of sensational cases involving President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., O.J. Simpson and…
Energy Dept. Releases New Efficiency Rules for Water Heaters and Other Appliances
The Biden administration is tightening efficiency rules for water heaters, stoves and other appliances, and conservative politicians are dialing up…
U.S. Plan to Protect Oceans Has a Problem, Some Say: Too Much Fishing
An effort to protect 30 percent of land and waters would count some commercial fishing zones as conserved areas.New details…
Killer Asteroid Hunters Spot 27,500 Overlooked Space Rocks
With the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal…
Edward Dwight, Once Picked to Be the First Black Astronaut in Space, Aims for Orbit at Last
Six decades ago, Mr. Dwight’s shot at becoming the first Black astronaut in space was thwarted by racism and politics.…
From Baby Talk to Baby A.I.
Could a better understanding of how infants acquire language help us build smarter A.I. models?We ask a lot of ourselves…
Honeybees Don’t Need Saving, I Learned When They Invaded My House
Responding to fears of a “honeybee collapse,” 30 states have passed laws to protect the pollinators. But when they invaded…
Winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize Use Courts to Contest Oil Projects
Around the world, grass-roots organizers and Indigenous communities are taking proposed coal, oil and gas projects to court — and…
They Shoot Owls in California, Don’t They?
In the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest, the northern spotted owl, a rare and fragile subspecies of spotted owl,…