Science
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Will Installing an Induction Range Help or Hurt the Value of My Home?
Q: I am looking to renovate my kitchen, and I’d love to replace my gas range with an induction range.…
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We Have a Creativity Problem
Creativity is lauded as vital, and seen as the lifeblood of great entertainment, innovation, progress and forward-thinking ideas. Who doesn’t…
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How a Lone Tenant Is Holding Up a $70 Million Condo Deal
Ahmet Nejat Ozsu won’t budge. For 15 years, he has lived in the same apartment — a one-bedroom with an…
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Hubble Telescope Zooms In on the Biggest Comet Ever Spotted
Last year, scientists announced that they had discovered a colossal comet lingering just inside Neptune’s orbit. They estimated its icy…
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Why City Pigeons Are Worth Watching
Credit...Illustrations by Rosemary MoscoRosemary Mosco is the author and illustrator of “A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching.”
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New DNA Analysis Supports an Unrecognized Tribe’s Ancient Roots in California
In “The Handbook of the Indians of California,” published in 1925, the anthropologist Alfred Kroeber pronounced the Ohlone people “extinct…
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The Shakespearean Tall Tale That Shaped How We See Starlings
In 1890, a mustachioed eccentric named Eugene Schieffelin released a few dozen European starlings into New York City. His supposed…
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Shards of Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs May Have Been Found in Fossil Site
GREENBELT, Md. — Pristine slivers of the impactor that killed the dinosaurs have been discovered, said scientists studying a North…
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In Houston, a Modernist Showplace With Some Brazilian Curves
Angelica and Gustavo Nechar moved many times in Brazil, where they were born and raised, and in France, where their…
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Learning the Right Way to Struggle
When Hunter, 6, started first grade last autumn, he struggled to match letter sounds with the shape of letters on…