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  1. A Solar Storm Lights Up the Night Sky

    The unusual sight of aurora borealis was visible around the world.

     By The New York Times

    The northern lights flared in the sky over a farmhouse in Brunswick, Maine.
    CreditRobert F. Bukaty/Associated Press
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  2. Tuna Crabs, Neither Tuna Nor Crabs, Are Swarming Near San Diego

    Divers and marine biologists are getting a window into the lives of a red crustacean most often found in the guts of other species.

     By Jules Jacobs

    CreditJules Jacobs
    Trilobites

  3. Why You Can Hear the Temperature of Water

    A science video maker in China couldn’t find a good explanation for why hot and cold water sound different, so he did his own research and published it.

     By Sam Kean

    CreditXiaotian Bi
    Trilobites

  4. Massive Fossil Donation Helps Brazil’s National Museum Rise From the Ashes

    A gift from abroad of more than 1,100 Brazilian fossils aims to step up efforts to rebuild the country’s National Museum, which suffered major fire damage in 2018.

     By Michael Greshko

    The well-preserved skull of a pterosaur, one of the fossils in an enormous donation made by the Swiss-German collector Burkhard Pohl to the Brazil National Museum.
    CreditHanderson Oliveira/Museu Nacional/UFRJ

  5. The Sex Lives of Cicadas, Revealed

    It may sound like a mosh pit out there. But to the participants, mating is a delicate, sonorous affair, fraught with potential missteps — and fungal zombies.

     By Alan Burdick

    CreditRudy Gutierrez

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Trilobites

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  1. When These Snakes Play Dead, Soiling Themselves Is Part of the Act

    Dice snakes found on an island in southeastern Europe fully commit themselves to the role of ex-reptile.

     By Asher Elbein

    Dice snakes are a nonvenomous, fish-loving species found from Western Europe all the way to western China.
    CreditJozef Kaut

  2. Orangutan, Heal Thyself

    For the first time, scientists observed a primate in the wild treating a wound with a plant that has medicinal properties.

     By Douglas Main

    Two months after his self-medication, Rakus’s wound was barely visible.
    CreditSafruddin

  3. Mountain Goats Are Not Avalanche-Proof

    The scene ends badly, as you might imagine.

     By Lesley Evans Ogden

    An adult male mountain goat in late winter, near Juneau Icefield, in Alaska.
    CreditKevin White

  4. Swimming Beneath Sand, It’s ‘the Hardest of All Animals to Find’

    Indigenous rangers in Australia’s Western Desert got a rare close-up with the northern marsupial mole, which is tiny, light-colored and blind, and almost never comes to the surface.

     By Anthony Ham

    The blind, elusive northern marsupial mole, so rarely seen that scientists aren’t sure how many there are in the wild.
    CreditKanyirninpa Jukurrpa Martu Rangers

  5. A Megaraptor Emerges From Footprint Fossils

    A series of foot tracks in southeastern China points to the discovery of a giant velociraptor relative, paleontologists suggest in a new study.

     By Jack Tamisiea

    The 90-million-year-old raptor, named Fujianipus yingliangi, is believed to have competed with tyrannosaurs of similar size in Cretaceous China.
    CreditYingliang Stone Natural History Museum

Origins

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  1. What Makes a Society More Resilient? Frequent Hardship.

    Comparing 30,000 years of human history, researchers found that surviving famine, war or climate change helps groups recover more quickly from future shocks.

     By Carl Zimmer

    The city of Caral thrived in Peru between about 5,000 and 3,800 years ago. It was then abandoned for centuries before being briefly reoccupied.
    CreditWirestock, Inc., via Alamy

  2. ¿Por qué las mujeres padecen más enfermedades autoinmunes? Un estudio apunta al cromosoma X

    Las moléculas que se adhieren al segundo cromosoma X de las mujeres lo silencian y pueden confundir al sistema inmunitario, según un nuevo estudio.

     By Carl Zimmer

    Cada cromosoma X tiene genes que, cuando están “encendidos”, producen proteínas que actúan en el interior de las células. Las mujeres, que tienen dos X, también tienen una molécula llamada Xist que se adhiere al segundo cromosoma X, silenciándolo.
    CreditBiophoto Associates/Science Source

  3. Fossil Trove From 74,000 Years Ago Points to Remarkably Adaptive Humans

    An archaeological site in Ethiopia revealed the oldest-known arrowheads and the remnants of a major volcanic eruption.

     By Carl Zimmer

    CreditBlue Nile Survey Project

  4. Why Do Whales Go Through Menopause?

    A new study argues that the change brought these females an evolutionary advantage — and perhaps did the same for humans.

     By Carl Zimmer

    A killer whale swims through the ocean near San Juan Island in Washington state in September 2023.
    CreditLouise Johns for The New York Times

  5. Tras la pista de los denisovanos

    El ADN ha demostrado que esos humanos ya extintos se extendieron por todo el mundo, desde la fría Siberia hasta el Tíbet, a una gran altitud, quizá incluso en las islas del Pacífico.

     By Carl Zimmer

    Investigadores de la Universidad Hebrea reconstruyeron el rostro de un denisovano basándose únicamente en el ADN. Casi no se han encontrado fósiles de denisovanos.
    CreditMaayan Harel/Universidad Hebrea en Jerusalén, vía Associated Press

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Climate and Environment

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  1. Cloud Brightening Study in California Is Halted by Local Officials

    Researchers had been testing a sprayer that could one day be used to push a salty mist skyward, cooling the Earth. Officials stopped the work, citing health questions.

     By Christopher Flavelle

    The experiment, designed to test possible cloud-brightening technology, took place aboard a ship docked in San Francisco Bay.
    CreditIan C. Bates for The New York Times

  2. Minnesota and Wisconsin Under Air Quality Warnings From Canada Wildfires

    As smoke from wildfires drifted south over the weekend, officials urged people to avoid prolonged exertion and to limit their time outdoors.

     By Claire Moses

    Smoke from wildfires burning east of Teepee Creek in Alberta, Canada, on Friday.
    CreditAlberta Wildfire Service, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

  3. At a Dinner, Trump Assailed Climate Rules and Asked $1 Billion From Big Oil

    At a private meeting at Mar-a-Lago, the former president said fossil fuel companies should donate to help him beat President Biden.

     By Lisa Friedman, Coral Davenport, Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman

    Former President Trump during a fund-raiser at Mar-a-Lago, his resort in Palm Beach, Fla., last year.
    CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times

  4. 10 Big Biden Environmental Rules, and What They Mean

    Asbestos, “forever” chemicals, E.V.s and endangered species. Here’s what 10 new rules cover, and why the administration has been churning them out.

     By Coral Davenport

    President Biden giving an Earth Day speech inside Prince William Forest Park in Virginia, last month.
    CreditTom Brenner for The New York Times

  5. Environmental Changes Are Fueling Human, Animal and Plant Diseases, Study Finds

    Biodiversity loss, global warming, pollution and the spread of invasive species are making infectious diseases more dangerous to organisms around the world.

     By Emily Anthes

    White-footed mice, the primary reservoir for Lyme disease, have become more dominant in the U.S. as other rarer mammals have disappeared, one potential explanation for rising disease rates.
    CreditBill Draker/Rolf Nussbaumer Photography, via Alamy
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