It was more than a year into their project before they had enough data to realize their early results were no mistake. The signals of mother and baby bats had diverged because the mothers were carefully ditching their babies in trees while
It was more than a year into their project before they had enough data to realize their early results were no mistake. The signals of mother and baby bats had diverged because the mothers were carefully ditching their babies in trees while
More than half the money went to California, New Jersey and Washington State. The largest single recipient was a $68 million flood-control project in Menlo Park, Calif., where the median household income is more than $160,000, the typical home costs more than
WADING RIVER, N.Y. — If Bill Jacobs was a petty man, or a less religious one, he might look through the thicket of flowers, bushes and brambles that encircle his home and see enemies all around. For to the North, and to
The weapon test, carried out by Russia’s Ministry of Defense, occurred at a moment of heightened tensions between the United States and Russia, as U.S. officials have warned allies that Moscow is building a military presence on its border with Ukraine. And
Brynn Kimber, a research scientist at the University of Washington who works in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Marine Mammal Laboratory, has spent a lot of time analyzing audio data recorded in the icy waters north of Alaska, Canada and Russia.
The sport of hunting for exoplanets, or planets around other star systems, has a new featherweight champion — a tiny world designated GJ 367 b with about half the mass of the Earth. The lightest exoplanet found to date, GJ 367 b
As recently as last week, many public health experts were fiercely opposed to the Biden administration’s campaign to roll out booster shots of the coronavirus vaccines to all American adults. There was little scientific evidence to support extra doses for most people,
Fossilized footprints that were found in Tanzania in the 1970s, dismissed for decades as having been made by bears, may have been left by an unidentified early human ancestor around 3.6 million years ago, new research suggests. The footprints were discovered in
Back-to-back years of little precipitation in the Indian Ocean nation of Madagascar have ruined harvests and caused hundreds of thousands of people to face uncertainty about their next meals. Aid groups say the situation there is nearing a humanitarian catastrophe. But human-induced
To better understand the coronavirus’s journey from one person to another, a team of 50 scientists has for the first time created an atomic simulation of the coronavirus nestled in a tiny airborne drop of water. To create the model, the researchers