Sarah Kaplan

The view through a window at the Barrow Atmospheric Baseline Observatory in Utqiagvik, Alaska, on April 11, 2019

One of Alaska’s warmest springs on record is causing a dangerous thaw

August 22, 2019 at 3:57 p.m.

Bryan Thomas doesn't want any more "wishy-washy conversations about climate change." For four years, he has served as station chief of the Barrow Atmospheric Baseline Observatory, America's northernmost scientific outpost...

Scientists create part-human, part-pig embryo

June 6, 2018 at 9:44 a.m.

For the first time, scientists have grown an embryo that is part-pig, part-human. The experiment, described Thursday in the journal Cell, involves injecting human stem cells into the embryo of...

Pisciarelli fumaroles and mud pools from the Campi Flegrei caldera, a super volcano, steam and boil near Naples on June 6, 2013.

Supervolcano that caused largest eruption in European history stirring again

August 22, 2019 at 2:26 a.m.

The Italian name for the caldera -- Campi Flegrei, or "burning fields" -- is apt. The 7.5-mile-wide cauldron is the collapsed top of an ancient volcano, formed when the magma...

Is yawning really contagious?

June 9, 2018 at 6:05 p.m.

Q: My co-worker is always sleepy, and when he starts yawning I can't help but join in. As someone putting in their full eight hours every night, it irks me...

How do I stop snoring?

June 12, 2018 at 12:29 a.m.

Q: According to my partner, I snore. A lot. I've never been made aware of this before. Is it possible that I've suddenly started snoring, or just never noticed? How...

Scientists show how we start stereotyping the moment we see a face

June 10, 2018 at 8:26 p.m.

Scientists have known for a while that stereotypes warp our perceptions of things. Implicit biases - those unconscious assumptions that worm their way into our brains, without our full awareness...

A general view inside CERN building 40 with its scale photo of The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment which is one of two large general-purpose particle physics detectors built on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at The European Organization for Nuclear Research commonly know as CERN on April 19, 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland.

Open sourcing the secrets of the universe: Large Hadron Collider data online

May 13, 2019 at 1:12 p.m.

Within a 17-mile tunnel buried beneath a small village in France, inside a massive machine known as the Large Hadron Collider, scientists are smashing particles together to try to divine...

Indiana 6-year-old picks up dad’s gun and accidentally kills him: ‘We can tell his heart is broken’

June 23, 2019 at 12:38 a.m.

It happened the way these things so often do: in the instant when no one was looking. James E. Lonaker sat at his computer, his back to his 6-year-old son....

This photo provided by PolyPEDAL Lab UC Berkeley, shows the compressible robot, CRAM with a real cockroach.

One of nature’s grossest creatures could help save someone’s life

June 9, 2018 at 6:16 a.m.

Robert Full doesn't like cockroaches. Probably for the same reasons as the rest of us: they're slick and they skitter, they have those shiny exoskeletons, they're practically impossible to kill....

In this image from video taken by ITV Tanzania on Saturday Jan. 30, 2016, shows Jumanne Maghembe, Tanzania's Minister for Tourism and Natural Resources, and officials walking towards helicopter wreckage at the site where a British pilot was killed after his helicopter was fired on by elephant poachers in the Maswa Wildlife Reserve, near Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.

Pilot allegedly shot down by poachers in Tanzania, where protecting elephants can be a deadly endeavor

June 23, 2019 at 6:00 a.m.

Helicopter pilot Roger Gower swooped low to get close to the fresh elephant carcass, which lay in the thick bush of Tanzania's Maswa Game Reserve. The people who had killed...

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