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Is spring actually getting longer?
“Nothing is so beautiful as Spring,” exulted Gerard Manley Hopkins, a big fan of the season. He has ... Read more
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Public radio’s Flatow professes that ‘Smart is the new sexy’
VALDOSTA, Ga. — Ira Flatow, renowned host of public radio’s Science Friday, has a particularly timely and relevant message ... Read more
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3 things we know about Saturn’s rings
Saturn’s awesome rings – thin bands of orbiting water ice and rock particles – are one of the ... Read more
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What’s in a name? Ask these 6 onetime nobodies
It’s a very small insect – a micro moth, in fact – with a yu-u-u-ge name: Neopalpa donaldtrumpi. Read more
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Breakthrough! 2016’s top science stories
As another year comes to an end, it’s both impressive and encouraging to look back at 2016’s scientific ... Read more
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Rex Tillerson’s view of climate change: It’s just an ‘engineering problem’
Last week, when Trump named Oklahoma attorney general Scott Pruitt to head his Environmental Protection Agency, critics instantly ... Read more
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Scientists are tying more and more extreme events to a changing climate
A new report, published Thursday as a special edition of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, provides ... Read more
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Volunteers create a ‘human voicebank’ to share their voices with the speech-impaired
Ryan. Alex. Siri. These are names of robotic voices that are often programmed on electronic tablets. They also ... Read more
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Here’s how much of the Arctic you’re personally responsible for melting
Dirk Notz calculates that for every person who drives a car 1,000 miles or takes a round-trip flight ... Read more