Science
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Hydroponic Lettuce Was Seen as Safe From Salmonella, Until an Outbreak
Countless saladlovers have embraced hydroponic produce, confident that baby lettuce, arugula and herbs raised indoors in greenhouses are safer ...
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An Anaconda’s Play Date With Dolphins Took a Strange Turn
In August 2021, a research team was documenting biodiversity near the Tijamuchi River in Bolivia when they saw some animals…
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Watch a Helicopter Try to Catch a Rocket Booster Falling From Space
Catch a falling rocket and bring it back to shore … On Tuesday (it will still be Monday evening in…
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Shopping for Outdoor Planters
Outdoor planters can transform almost any hard surface — a terrace, a balcony, even a stoop — into a garden.…
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My Neighbor Is Exploiting Our Shared Property Line. What Can I Do?
Q: A shared alley separates my Staten Island house from my neighbor’s. The property line runs down the middle of…
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You Hear the Musical Saw. These Mathematicians Heard Geometry.
Early in the 19th century, an unknown musician somewhere in the Appalachian Mountains discovered that a steel handsaw, a tool…
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These Bloodworms Grow Copper Fangs and Have Bad Attitudes
Glycera dibranchiata is exactly the kind of creature you don’t want to find at the bottom of your beach bucket.…
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The ‘Ultimate Bird’ Once Prowled the Seas of a Young Japan
It’s not unusual today to find swans on rivers and lakes, splitting their time between pulling up water plants and…
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A Black Man Ran to Gay Enclaves to Feel Safe. But Was He Welcome?
Just days after the pandemic made landfall in New York City in the spring of 2020 — and right as…
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Saving the History of the Pines on Fire Island
Erosion is a theme of the Pines, with its wind-tortured dunes and combustible wood buildings. But Bobby Bonanno, 65, who…