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  1. A Conversation With…

    Jane Goodall Is More of a Dog Person, Actually

    Dr. Goodall, who is best known for her work with chimpanzees, recently celebrated her forthcoming 90th birthday with as many dogs and explained why she isn’t slowing down.

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    Jane Goodall, center, was joined by 90 dogs of all breeds for a birthday celebration at Carmel Beach on Saturday. She turns 90 on April 3.
    CreditFrans Lanting
  1. Do Birds Dream?

    What new research on the avian brain and REM sleep in birds might reveal about our own dream lives.

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  2. Bird Flu Spreads to Dairy Cows

    U.S. regulators confirmed that sick cattle in Texas, Kansas and possibly in New Mexico contracted avian influenza. They stressed that the nation’s milk supply is safe.

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    The U.S.D.A. said that dairy cattle in Texas and Kansas had tested positive for avian flu, but the agency asserted that the milk supply was safe.
    CreditAllison Terry for The New York Times
  3. Maps of the April 2024 Total Solar Eclipse

    On April 8, the moon will cast a shadow across much of North America.

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  4. Cosmic Forecast: Blurry With a Chance of Orbital Chaos

    Astronomers have gotten better at tracking the motions of stars just beyond the solar system. But that’s made it harder to predict Earth’s future and reconstruct its past.

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    Researchers discovered that a sunlike star named HD 7977, found 247 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia, could have passed close enough to the sun about 2.8 million years ago to alter the orbits of the Earth and other planets.
    CreditAlan Dyer/VWPics, via Alamy
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  5. A Total Solar Eclipse Is Coming. Here’s What You Need to Know.

    These are answers to common questions about the April 8 eclipse, and we’re offering you a place to pose more of them.

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    CreditMatthew Abbott for The New York Times

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April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse

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  1. No Eclipse Plans? Try These Last-Minute Strategies.

    On April 8, parts of 13 U.S. states, Mexico and Canada will plunge into midday darkness. Miss this spectacle and you’ll have to wait till 2044 for the next one so close to home.

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    Dripping Springs, Texas, will experience three minutes of midday darkness on April 8. It’s just one destination along an eclipse path that sweeps from Mexico to Newfoundland.
    CreditSuzanne Cordeiro/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
  2. Maps of the April 2024 Total Solar Eclipse

    On April 8, the moon will cast a shadow across much of North America.

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    CreditThe New York Times
  3. A Total Solar Eclipse Is Coming. Here’s What You Need to Know.

    These are answers to common questions about the April 8 eclipse, and we’re offering you a place to pose more of them.

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    CreditMatthew Abbott for The New York Times
  4. A Dark Day Is Coming for Buffalo. It Can’t Wait.

    A total eclipse will pass directly over the city next month, and as many as a million visitors are expected to visit.

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    CreditJalen Wright for The New York Times
  5. What’s the Cloud Outlook for Eclipse Day? See if History Is on Your Side.

    April 8 could be your best opportunity to see a total solar eclipse for decades. But if clouds fill the sky, your shot at seeing the spectacle could be lost.

     By Josh KatzK.K. Rebecca Lai and

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Trilobites

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  1. Long Before Amsterdam’s Coffee Shops, There Were Hallucinogenic Seeds

    A nearly 2,000-year-old stash pouch provides the first evidence of the intentional use of a powerful psychedelic plant in Western Europe during the Roman Era.

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    A bone container dating to between A.D. 70 and 100 was sealed with a tar plug and held hundreds of black henbane seeds.
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  2. These Mobile Games Are for the Birds

    How do you design an app for a parrot? Consider games that are “made to be licked,” a new study suggests.

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  3. A Seal’s Spray Adds a Chapter to the Science of Spitting

    The observation suggests that seals join cobras, archerfish and other animals known to spit, although researchers can only speculate about the reason for the mammal’s expectoration.

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    CreditClare Jacobs
  4. Subterranean ‘Baby Dragons’ Are Revealed to Sneak to the Surface

    Scientists never imagined that the blind cave salamanders called olms willingly left their caves. But at numerous aboveground springs, there they were.

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    Adult olm active during daytime in a spring in the municipality of Doberdò del Lago, Italy.
    CreditMatteo Riccardo Di Nicola
  5. When Cicadas Emerge, Things Might Get a Little Wet

    A new study reveals that cicadas can discharge urine with far more force than their size would suggest. This spring’s output could be significant.

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Origins

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  1. 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.

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  2. 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.

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    A killer whale swims through the ocean near San Juan Island in Washington state in September 2023.
    CreditLouise Johns for The New York Times
  3. 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.

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    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
  4. On the Trail of the Denisovans

    DNA has shown that the extinct humans thrived around the world, from chilly Siberia to high-altitude Tibet — perhaps even in the Pacific islands.

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    Researchers at Hebrew University reconstructed the face of a Denisovan based on DNA alone. Almost no fossils of Denisovans have been found.
    CreditMaayan Harel/Hebrew University in Jerusalem, via Associated Press
  5. Scientists Find Genetic Signature of Down Syndrome in Ancient Bones

    The discovery may help shed light on how prehistoric societies treated children with rare conditions.

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    Ancient remains of infants, like this 2500-year-old skeleton found in Spain, bear genetic hallmarks of Down syndrome.
    CreditGovernment of Navarre and J.L. Larrion

Climate and Environment

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  1. A Simple New Technique Could Make Your Eggs More Humane

    A system that determines the sex of chicks before they hatch eliminates the need to destroy young males.

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    Several European countries already use technology that can determine a chick’s sex before it hatches and have banned culling.
    CreditJoel Saget/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
  2. Biden Administration Restores Wildlife Protections Weakened Under Trump

    The rules give federal officials more leeway to protect species in a changing climate. Industry groups are expected to sue.

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    A San Joaquin kit fox in the Carrizo Plain National Monument in California. The species has been on the endangered list since 1967.
    CreditMichael Walker/Alamy
  3. The Last Coal-Fired Power Plants in New England Are to Close

    The company that owns the Merrimack and Schiller stations in New Hampshire plans to turn them into solar farms and battery storage for offshore wind.

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    The Schiller coal-fired power station in Portsmouth, N.H. In recent years, it had run only intermittently during peak periods.
    CreditGordon Chibroski/Portland Press Herald, via Getty Images
  4. ‘Garbage Lasagna’: Dumps Are a Big Driver of Warming, Study Says

    Decades of buried trash is releasing methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, at higher rates than previously estimated, the researchers said.

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    Landfills are the third-largest source of human-caused methane emissions, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
    CreditAndri Tambunan for The New York Times
  5. A New Surge in Power Use Is Threatening U.S. Climate Goals

    A boom in data centers and factories is straining electric grids and propping up fossil fuels.

     By Brad Plumer and

    CreditThe New York Times

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    ¿Sueñan los pájaros?

    Nuevas investigaciones sobre el cerebro de las aves y su sueño REM nos dan pistas sobre la evolución de nuestros propios sueños.

    By Maria Popova

     
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  7. Ice Skating and the Brain

    How do champion skaters accomplish their extraordinary jumps and spins? Brain science is uncovering clues.

    By Pam Belluck

     
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