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Japanese Moon Lander Crashed Because of a Software Glitch

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Why It Matters: Learning and improving.A review of data showed that the software guiding the descent appeared to lose track of the landers’s...
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Is This Octopus Having a Nightmare?

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Costello the octopus was napping while stuck to the glass of his tank at the Rockefeller University in New York. He snoozed quietly...
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Just Between Us Squirrels, There Might Be Trouble in the Arctic Dating Scene

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Male Arctic ground squirrels go through puberty every year. As if that wasn’t hard enough, now the females have a problem, too.According to...
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Ultrasound Pulses to Brain Send Mice Into a Hibernation-Like State

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For many animals, life is a cycle of scarcity as well as plenty. Hibernating creatures curl up underground in winter, slowing their metabolism...
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Robert J. Zimmer, Who Promoted Free Speech on Campus, Dies at 75

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“I actually started college as a physics major,” Mr. Zimmer once confessed. “I switched to mathematics when I tried unsuccessfully for 45 minutes...
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Quite a Tail: A Mouse Has Been Hiding Its Armor All This Time

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At first it looks like a slightly more hairy rodent. But the spiny mouse’s body is full of secrets. Found in rock outcrops...
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A Powerful Climate Solution Just Below the Ocean’s Surface

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They can bolster the coastlines, break the force of hurtling waves, provide housing for fish, shellfish, and migrating birds, clean the water, store...
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This Is Not an Extraterrestrial Signal. This Is Just a Test.

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In the 1997 movie “Contact,” Jodie Foster plays an astronomer, Ellie Arroway, who detects an alien radio signal from outer space. Eventually the...
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A Hospital Visit Reveals Medieval Secrets Hidden in Books

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Even in medieval times, recycling was in vogue: Bits of parchment salvaged from older handwritten manuscripts were often used to reinforce other books....
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Heat Wave and Blackout Would Send Half of Phoenix to E.R., Study Says

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If a multiday blackout in Phoenix coincided with a heat wave, nearly half the population would require emergency department care for heat stroke...
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