Climate change may rob male dragonfly wings of their dark spots
Many dragonflies zip through the air with their translucent wings painted in an array of dark spots and bands. But — for males at...
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Mixing trees and crops can help both farmers and the climate
Maxwell Ochoo’s first attempt at farming was a dismal failure. In Ochieng Odiere, a village near the shores of Kenya’s Lake Victoria, “getting a...
Froghoppers are the super-suckers of the animal world
To tap an unlikely source of nutrition, insects small enough to sit on a pencil eraser have to suck harder than any known creature....
Hurricanes may not be becoming more frequent, but they’re still more dangerous
Climate change is helping Atlantic hurricanes pack more of a punch, making them rainier, intensifying them faster and helping the storms linger longer even...
‘The Joy of Sweat’ will help you make peace with perspiration
The Joy of SweatSarah EvertsW.W. Norton & Co., $26.95 The telltale darkened patches under our arms before a presentation. The cold slide of a...
The first step in using trees to slow climate change: Protect the trees we have
Between a death and a burial was hardly the best time to show up in a remote village in Madagascar to make a pitch...
Dogs tune into people in ways even human-raised wolves don’t
Wiggles and wobbles and a powerful pull toward people — that’s what 8-week-old puppies are made of. From an early age, dogs outpace wolves...
Satellites show how a massive lake in Antarctica vanished in days
On June 5, 2019, a massive, ice-covered lake sat atop East Antarctica’s Amery Ice Shelf. Within six days, all 600 million to 750 million...
How science overlooks Asian Americans
For years, sociologist ChangHwan Kim has sought to characterize the lives and experiences of Asian Americans. Gatekeepers in the research community, though, have often...
One mutation may have set the coronavirus up to become a global menace
A single change in a key viral protein may have helped the coronavirus behind COVID-19 make the jump from animals to people, setting the...
Newborn screening for cancer risk could save lives. Should it be done? 
World marks second warmest July on record 
Ebola deaths top 2,000 as scientists race to develop vaccine 
South Sudan: UN mission decries deadly attacks, works to calm tensions after ‘nothing but devastation’