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  1. Boeing Starliner Flight of NASA Astronauts Is Scrubbed

    Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will have to wait for another day to fly to the International Space Station in an orbital capsule that has already faced years of costly technical delays.

     

    The Boeing Starliner spacecraft atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Sunday.
    CreditJoel Kowsky/NASA, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
  2. Mind

    From Baby Talk to Baby A.I.

    Could a better understanding of how infants acquire language help us build smarter A.I. models?

     By Oliver Whang

    For an hour each week for the past 11 months, Brenden Lake, right, a psychologist at New York University, with his wife, Tammy Kwan, has been attaching a camera to their daughter Luna and recording things from her point of view.
    CreditHiroko Masuike/The New York Times

  3. How to Know When a Good Dog Has Gone Bad

    Gov. Kristi Noem suggested that President Biden should have euthanized the family dog, as she did. Animal experts said that such an option should be a last resort.

     By Emily Anthes

    President Biden’s dog, Commander, a German shepherd, being walked outside the West Wing of the White House last year.
    CreditCarolyn Kaster/Associated Press

  4. Our Reporter on the Cicada Lifecycle

    Two periodical cicada broods are appearing in a 16-state area in the Midwest and Southeast for the first time in centuries.

     By Aaron Byrd, Karen Hanley and Carl Zimmer

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  1. Was the Stone Age Actually the Wood Age?

    Neanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000-year-old wooden tools has revealed.

     By Franz Lidz

    Spears and throwing sticks dating from about 300,000 years ago. They were among the many wooden objects excavated between 1994 and 2008 from an open-pit coal mine in northern Germany.
    CreditNiedersächsisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege

  2. Maps of Two Cicada Broods, Reunited After 221 Years

    Brood XIII and Brood XIX are making their first dual appearance since 1803.

     By Jonathan Corum

    CreditThe New York Times

  3. 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
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  4. Republicans Step Up Attacks on Scientist at Heart of Lab Leak Theory

    A heated hearing produced no new evidence that Peter Daszak or his nonprofit, EcoHealth Alliance, were implicated in the Covid outbreak.

     By Benjamin Mueller

    Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, testifying during a hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
    CreditTing Shen for The New York Times

  5. Edward Dwight Aims for Space at Last

    Six decades ago, Mr. Dwight’s shot at becoming the first Black astronaut in space was thwarted by racism and politics. Now, at 90, he’s finally going up.

     By Matt Richtel

    “My whole life has been about getting things done,” said Edward Dwight, a retired pilot, current sculptor and future crew member on a Blue Origin mission into space. “This is the culmination.”
    CreditNathan Bajar for The New York Times
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Trilobites

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  1. 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

  2. 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 rare that scientists aren’t sure how many there are in the wild.
    CreditKanyirninpa Jukurrpa Martu Rangers

  3. 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

  4. In Coral Fossils, Searching for the First Glow of Bioluminescence

    A new study resets the timing for the emergence of bioluminescence back to millions of years earlier than previously thought.

     By Sam Jones

    Iridogorgia, a genus of deep-sea bioluminescent coral.
    CreditNOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Deepwater Wonders of Wake

  5. Like Moths to a Flame? We May Need a New Phrase.

    Over time researchers have found fewer of the insects turning up in light traps, suggesting they may be less attracted to some kinds of light than they once were.

     By Veronique Greenwood

    Attracting moths and other insects with a light trap at night.
    CreditAnton Sorokin/Alamy

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. Are Flight Offsets Worth It?

    A lot of them don’t work and some might even be harmful. But there are things you can do if you really have to fly.

     By Susan Shain

    CreditNaomi Anderson-Subryan

  2. What Happens When NASA Loses Eyes on Earth? We’re About to Find Out.

    Three long-running satellites will soon be switched off, forcing scientists to figure out how to adjust their views of our changing planet.

     By Raymond Zhong

    Marine stratocumulus clouds over the southeastern Pacific Ocean, captured by NASA’s Terra satellite in 2002.
    CreditNASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team

  3. ‘We Will Save Our Beef’: Florida Bans Lab-Grown Meat

    Other states have also considered restrictions, citing concerns about farmers’ livelihoods and food safety, though the product isn’t expected to be widely available for years.

     By Dionne Searcey

    Uncooked lab-grown chicken breast made by a California company. Startups around the world are working on the technology.
    CreditPeter DaSilva/Reuters

  4. Gas Stove Pollution Risk Is Greatest in Smaller Homes, Study Finds

    Gas-burning ranges, a significant contributor to indoor pollution, can produce and spread particularly high levels of some pollutants in smaller spaces.

     By Hiroko Tabuchi

    Yannai Kashtan, a scientist from Stanford University, lit a stove in a New York City apartment as part of the research last year.
    CreditCalla Kessler for The New York Times

  5. U.S. Plan to Protect Oceans Has a Problem, Some Say: Too Much Fishing

    An effort to protect 30 percent of land and waters would count some commercial fishing zones as conserved areas.

     By Catrin Einhorn

    The primary driver of biodiversity declines in the ocean, according to researchers, is overfishing.
    CreditKarsten Moran for The New York Times
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    China Launches Moon Lander

    The Chang’e-6 mission aims to bring back samples from the lunar far side.

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