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Photographer Thierry Cohen tries to reconnect city dwellers with nature through his mind-blowing composite images—now at New York City's Danziger Gallery
March 29, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
Far below the ocean floor, scientists have discovered a microbial community away from undersea vents, beyond the reach of the sun
March 29, 2013
| By Hannah Waters
They're the biggest innovation in higher education in years, but are they a threat to small universities and community colleges?
March 29, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
Satellites snap pictures of Greenland's glaciers, which a new study shows are vanishing at an accelerated pace, helping to spike global sea levels
March 29, 2013
| By Claire Martin
Researchers use tiny robots to study how ants navigate a labyrinth of networks, from the nest to the food and back again
March 28, 2013
| By Marina Koren
Contrary to the cliché, an analysis of news articles over the years shows that celebrity has lasting power
March 28, 2013
| By Joseph Stromberg
The first-ever sequencing of the "produce microbiome" reveals that grapes, peaches and sprouts host the largest diversity of harmless bacteria
March 27, 2013
| By Joseph Stromberg
Scientists can now quickly assess characteristics of a landslide soon after slopes fail, based on its seismic signature
March 27, 2013
| By Mohi Kumar
A German contemporary artist creates a meditative space—lined with beeswax—at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.
March 26, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
Being socially isolated increases your chance of death—but not because you're feeling depressed over being lonely
March 25, 2013
| By Joseph Stromberg
As Easter draws near, we celebrate creatures that seemingly die and then come back to life
March 25, 2013
| By Rachel Nuwer
Should sending "Thank you" emails and leaving voice mails now be considered bad manners? Some think texting has made it so.
March 25, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
Animals with shrinking habitats are interbreeding, temporarily boosting populations but ultimately hurting species' survival
March 22, 2013
| By Claire Martin
It's a product of the emerging field of terradynamics, which studies the movement of vehicles across shifting surfaces
March 21, 2013
| By Joseph Stromberg
With a surprisingly light touch, the New York City-based photographer instills feelings of solitude in his images of massive glaciers
March 21, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
An inch and a half long with bright red eyes, the swarm of Brood II cicadas is coming
March 20, 2013
| By Colin Schultz
The new technology can be packed into a tiny space, requires no glasses and can project images and video in full color
March 20, 2013
| By Joseph Stromberg
New data indicate the spacecraft, launched in 1977, has neared interstellar space, more than 11 billion miles away from the Sun
March 20, 2013
| By Joseph Stromberg
Contrary to prior speculation about the elusive creatures, all giant squid belong to a single species and they all share very similar genetics
March 20, 2013
| By Rachel Nuwer
One of behavioral psychology's most famous scientists was also one of the quirkiest
March 20, 2013
| By Marina Koren
Scientists believe dirt could explain why some of the wealthiest countries suffer from afflictions rarely seen in less-developed nations
April 2013
| By Andrew Curry
If you can’t break the laws of physics, work around them
April 2013
| By Tom Siegfried
The promise of oil has heated up a global argument over the Arctic’s true borders
April 2013
| By Amy Crawford
The spacecraft will run out of power around 2025, but where will it travel to first?
April 2013
| By Ken Croswell
Conference-goers put into verse the ethane lakes on a Saturn moon, the orbital paths of Martian moons and a megachondrule's mistaken identity
March 19, 2013
| By Mohi Kumar
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