Real Estate
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Let’s Go Ice Skating. In the Backyard.
Josh Allen had always wanted to try ice skating. “It looked like something fun to do that was good exercise,”…
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It Started as Winter Break. It Ended With a Doomed Moon Mission.
Carnegie Mellon University students built Iris, a tiny lunar rover. When the spacecraft carrying it to the moon malfunctioned, they…
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Polluted Flowers Smell Less Sweet to Pollinators, Study Finds
The damage that air pollution can do is wide-ranging and well-known: The chemicals produced by human activities can trap heat…
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How Earth Might Have Turned Into a Snowball
A team of scientists thinks the planet may have been thrust into its longest ice age because less gas leaked…
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$450,000 Homes in Virginia, Massachusetts and Ohio
A Carpenter Gothic-style home in Irvington, a cottage in the Berkshires and a two-bedroom brick house in Columbus.
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A Two-Ton Lifeguard That Saved a Young Pup
In an unlikely act of altruism observed two years ago, a male elephant seal prevented a younger animal from drowning.
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An Ancient Woolly Mammoth Left a Diary in Her Tusk
Scientists are looking at layers of minerals left behind on mammoth tusks to estimate where the hulking animals spent their…
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A.I.’s Latest Challenge: the Math Olympics
Watch out, nerdy high schoolers, AlphaGeometry is coming for your mathematical lunch.
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If You’re Thinking About Growing Onions From Seed, It’s Time to Get Started
Now is the time to buy onion seeds, which are cheaper and come in more interesting varieties than mail-order transplants.…
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$370,000 Homes in Washington, New York and Michigan
A one-bedroom condominium in Seattle, a renovated 1988 home in Eagle Bridge and a 1916 house once owned by the…