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Video: Inside the Effort to Change How Seeds Grow

Much of the food we eat is grown with synthetic fertilizer, which is a huge source of climate change. But now, a seed...

Video: Why Milton and Helene ‘Exploded’ in Strength

How did Hurricane Milton, and Hurricane Helene before it, get so strong, so fast? Raymond Zhong, a reporter focusing on climate and environmental...

7 Years After ‘Summer of Hell,’ the Subway Is Approaching Another Crisis

Seven years ago, after a series of subway failures so severe that a stretch of 2017 came to be known as the Summer...

‘Ready, Steady, Slow’: Championship Snail Racing at 0.006 M.P.H.

For the next few weeks, Paris will be home to many of the world’s impressive athletes, including some of the fastest human beings...

Richard M. Goldstein, Who Helped Map the Cosmos, Dies at 97

Richard M. Goldstein, a trailblazer in planetary exploration who used ground-based radars to map planets with techniques that scientists now use to measure...

Tesla’s Share of U.S. Electric Car Market Falls Below 50%

Tesla’s once-commanding share of the market for electric vehicles in the United States slipped below 50 percent in the second quarter of the...

Should You Hug a Sloth?

To hear animal rights activists tell it, those at SeaQuest are not. The for-profit company is not accredited by any zoo organization. It...

How to Watch Europe Launch Its Powerful New Rocket

The European Space Agency has waited about a decade for the first launch of Ariane 6, a powerful new rocket. But the brand-new...

A Brand-New Electric Bus, No Charge. (That Was One Problem.)

The matter before the school board was straightforward. The tiny school district in Wymore, Neb., needed a new school bus to replace one...

To Protect Redwoods, They Lit a Fire

A wake-up callThe ferocious Castle Fire in 2020 was the first of the extreme fires to strike the heart of the sequoia forests...

A Week of Extreme Weather, Explained

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.On Friday, a wildfire...

Children With Autism Carry Unique Gut Flora, Study Finds

The process for diagnosing a child with autism heavily relies on a parent's description of their child’s behavior and a professional’s observations. It...

Fearsome Sharks of Today Evolved When Ancient Oceans Got Hot

It sounds like something out of a Hollywood film script, but it really happened: Shark-evolution researchers say that increased ocean temperatures more than...

Wildlife Protections Take a Back Seat to SpaceX’s Ambitions

As Elon Musk’s Starship — the largest rocket ever manufactured — successfully blasted toward the sky last month, the launch was hailed as...

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