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NASA Is About to Crash Into an Asteroid. Here’s How to Watch.

An asteroid minding its own business not too far from Earth is about to get knocked about by a visitor…

Counting the World’s Ants Requires a Lot of Zeros

Right now, ants are scurrying around every continent except Antarctica, doing the hard work of engineering ecosystems. They spread seeds,…

Neptune and Its Rings Come Into Focus With Webb Telescope

No spacecraft has visited Neptune since 1989, when the NASA probe Voyager 2 flew past on its way out of…

New System Aims to Save Whales Near San Francisco From Ship Collisions

THE PACIFIC OCEAN NEAR SAN FRANCISCO — Fran washed ashore in August, some 25 miles south of the Golden Gate…

Physics Body Concedes Mistakes in Study of Missile Defense

The world’s largest body of physicists admitted on Monday that a report it had issued seven months ago contained errors…

This Acrobatic Hunting Trick Is Straight Out of the Spider-Verse

Spiders have no shortage of strategies to capture their prey. Some hunt in packs, others set traps and some even…

Life on Mars? This Could Be the Place NASA’s Rover Helps Us Find It.

Exploring an ancient river delta in a crater on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover has collected samples of two rocks that…

Scientists Have Made a Human Microbiome From Scratch

Our bodies are home to hundreds or thousands of species of microbes — nobody is sure quite how many. That’s…

This Jellyfish Can Live Forever. Its Genes May Tell Us How.

Fleets of tiny translucent umbrellas, each about the size of a lentil, waft through the waters of the Mediterranean Sea.…

The Hunt for Big Hail

In August, a couple of days before his 68th birthday, Leslie Scott, a cattle rancher in Vivian, S.D., went to…

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