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This City’s Sewer System Is Full of Alligators, but It’s Not New York
Researchers found crocodilians, bats, raccoons and other creatures prowling a Florida town’s storm drains, “like something out of ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,’” one said.
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By watching the brain process information, she discovered that a specific region plays a key role in spatial navigation — and that it can be strengthened like a muscle.
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CreditUCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology Her Discovery Wasn’t Alien Life, but Science Has Never Been the Same
The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 years later, she’s pursuing new research on the boundaries of life.
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Hummingbirds Living in a Hive Found for the First Time
In a remote mountain cave in Ecuador, hummingbirds were discovered sleeping and nesting together.
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Alessio Figalli studies optimal transport, a field of math that ranges from the movements of clouds to the workings of chatbots.
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Heart disease is more common in people over 65, but treatments are better than ever. That can complicate decision-making for older heart patients.
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CreditAnn Johansson for The New York Times The New Old AgeA Deep-Sea Fish of Nightmares Strays Into Shallow Waters
A scary-looking creature with “devil” in its name was spotted close to the surface off Tenerife, a Spanish island.
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This month, Vishvaa Rajakumar won the Memory League World Championship, which tests memorization skills. He shared some of his techniques with The Times.
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More in Origins ›Ancient DNA Points to Origins of Indo-European Language
A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and hundreds of others.
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CreditHarvard Medical School Lurking Inside an Asteroid: Life’s Ingredients
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose.
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DNA from European fossils dating back 45,000 years offers new clues to how our species spread across the world.
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CreditTom Björklund Mammoth: It’s What Was for Dinner
A study of a 12,800-year-old skull of a toddler offers a glimpse at how early Americans found food, and how their hunts may have led to a mass extinction.
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CreditEric Carlson/Desert Archaeology, Inc.; Ben Potter/University of Alaska Fairbanks and Jim Chatters/McMaster University ‘DNA Typewriters’ Can Record a Cell’s History
Labs around the world are trying to turn cells into autobiographers, tracking their own development from embryos to adults.
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More in Trilobites ›Scared of Spiders? Also Scared of Zombies? We Have Some Bad News.
A BBC documentary crew in Northern Ireland stumbled upon a fungus that hijacks spiders in an arachnid version of “The Last of Us.”
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CreditTim Fogg What Lurks in This Flower’s Bizarrely Large Y Chromosome?
Scientists published a full genetic sequence of the genes that make some white campions male, and hope their work could unlock how the flower got that way.
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CreditLynda F. Delph How to Boil an Egg? Scientists Claim to Have Cracked the Recipe.
Their new method takes 32 minutes.
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CreditErnesto Di Maio Fossils Preserve Both Skin and Scales From an Ancient Sea Monster
The mix of features offers new clues to how plesiosaurs navigated prehistoric oceans.
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CreditKlaus Nilkens/Urwelt-Museum Hauff The Search for the Original Silly Goose in the Fossil Record
Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks that lived alongside the dinosaurs.
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More in Climate and Environment ›California’s High-Risk Insurer Gets $1 Billion Bailout After L.A. Fires
The move will likely lead to higher costs for households across the state, and may push more insurers to leave, intensifying a home insurance crisis.
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CreditPhilip Cheung for The New York Times NOAA Is Told to Make List of Climate-Related Grants, Setting Off Fears
Staff members search for spending on “climate science,” “climate crisis” and “pollution” as one of the world’s premier climate research agencies girds for cuts.
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CreditKristoffer Tripplaar/Sipa, via Associated Press Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway.
The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study “too important to die.”
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CreditKarsten Moran for The New York Times Trump Is Freezing Money for Clean Energy. Red States Have the Most to Lose.
About 80 percent of manufacturing investments spurred by a Biden-era climate law have flowed to Republican districts. Efforts to stop federal payments are already causing pain.
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You don’t need to settle for what your insurance company or the government first offers. And you don’t have to fight alone.
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As Trump Targets Research, Scientists Share Grief and Resolve to Fight
At a conference in Boston, the nation’s scientists commiserated and strategized as funding cuts and federal layoffs throw their world into turmoil.
By Raymond Zhong
On a Mission to Heal Gila Monsters
After years in Big Pharma, a chemist pivoted to help save the species that made Ozempic possible.
By Emily Anthes and Emily Elconin
She’s Trying to Stay Ahead of Alzheimer’s, in a Race to the Death
In the Netherlands, doctors and dementia patients must negotiate a fine line: Assisted death for those without capacity is legal, but doctors won’t do it.
By Stephanie Nolen
The New Old AgeNew Insights Into Older Hearts
Heart disease is more common in people over 65, but treatments are better than ever. That can complicate decision-making for older heart patients.
By Paula Span
Eleanor Maguire, Memory Expert Who Studied London Cabbies, Dies at 54
By watching the brain process information, she discovered that a specific region plays a key role in spatial navigation — and that it can be strengthened like a muscle.
By Michael S. Rosenwald
Meet the Champion Who Memorized 80 Numbers in 13.5 Seconds
This month, Vishvaa Rajakumar won the Memory League World Championship, which tests memorization skills. He shared some of his techniques with The Times.
By Michael S. Rosenwald
Texas County Declares an Emergency Over Toxic Fertilizer
Johnson County is seeking federal assistance, saying its farmland has become dangerously contaminated with “forever chemicals” from the use of fertilizer made from sewage sludge.
By Hiroko Tabuchi
N.I.H. Research Grants Lag $1 Billion Behind Last Year’s
After weeks of disruption to scientific federal grants, the National Institutes of Health has fallen behind in funding research into treatments for deadly diseases.
By Christina Jewett and Teddy Rosenbluth
Trump’s Funding Freeze Raises a New Question: Is the Government’s Word Good?
Companies that get federal grants or loans usually sign a legally binding agreement and depend on getting reimbursed. The new administration has upended that expectation.
By Brad Plumer and Nicholas Nehamas
How Trump’s Medical Research Cuts Would Hit Colleges and Hospitals in Every State
Changes to a key funding formula will reduce research grants at hospitals and universities by billions — and may discourage future research.
By Emily Badger, Aatish Bhatia, Irineo Cabreros, Eli Murray, Francesca Paris, Margot Sanger-Katz and Ethan Singer
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