Science Times: Reviving the redwoods

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View in browser|nytimes.com Continue reading the main story August 15, 2023 Ian C. Bates for The New York Times Reviving the Redwoods A mission to undo decades of damage to the redwoods of California caused by unchecked logging involves even more logging — and chain saws. By Jim Robbins and Ian C. Bates Hannah Beier for The New York Times A Museum of 'Electrifying Frankness' Weighs Dialing It Down The Mütter Museum, a beloved 19th-century collection of medical curiosities and human remains in Philadelphia, wants to adopt a more "respectful" approach. Some fans won't have it. By Franz Lidz Reidar Hahn/Fermilab, via US Department of Energy Physicists Move One Step Closer to a Theoretical Showdown The deviance of a tiny particle called the muon might prove that one of the most well-tested theories in physics is incomplete. By Katrina Miller Tom Ingram/Alamy Stock Photo How Old Is That Polar Bear? The Answer Is in Its Blood. So-called "epigenetic clocks" are helping wildlife biologists estimate the ages of animals far more easily than in the past. By Carl Zimmer Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT Email us Let us know how we're doing at sciencenewsletter@nytimes.com. Roscosmos, via Reuters Nearly 50 Years After Its Last Journey, Russia Launches Toward the Moon The Luna-25 mission, years in the making, will try to put a robotic lander near the moon's south pole. By Kenneth Chang and Anton Troianovski Vincent Tullo for The New York Times Gilder Center Flies, Wriggles and Surprises A sculpture that could be Banksy's, an astonishing vein of rock crystal, and Nabokov's butterfly specimens — they are all found here. By Laurel Graeber Schmidt Ocean Institute TRILOBITES Under a Hellish Ocean Habitat, Bizarre Animals Are Lurking For the first time, scientists observed tubeworms and other complex ocean creatures dwelling beneath hydrothermal vents. By Robin George Andrews Cheng Long TRILOBITES First Came 'the Great Dying,' Then This Strange Reptile Evolved The creature's surprising anatomy suggests that rapid and unusual evolution was occurring in the seas after a period of massive extinction. By Kate Golembiewski An Overrun Miami Suburb Will Snip Its Peacocks (and Not in the Feathers) The birds are breeding and running amok in Pinecrest, Fla. The village will test a novel solution to rein them in: peacock vasectomies. By Patricia Mazzei and Alfonso Duran TRILOBITES Hush Little Baby, Don't Say a Word — I Think a Crocodile Heard The semiaquatic reptiles seemed to be roused to action in a study when they heard recordings of crying human and ape infants. By Elizabeth Preston TRILOBITES These Clever Fish Have Mastered the Fakeout Trumpetfish use a number of tricks to catch prey, but research shows that one of their most effective tactics has much in common with human hunters' subterfuge. By Annie Roth W. Jason Morgan, Who Developed Theory of Plate Tectonics, Dies at 87 His framework offered a new way to think about continental drift and revolutionized the study of earthquakes, volcanoes and evolution. By Clay Risen Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT CLIMATE CHANGE The Clean Energy Future Is Arriving Faster Than You Think The United States is pivoting away from fossil fuels and toward wind, solar and other renewable energy, even in areas dominated by the oil and gas industries. By David Gelles, Brad Plumer, Jim Tankersley, Jack Ewing, Leo Dominguez and Nadja Popovich Bloomberg U.S. to Fund a $1.2 Billion Effort to Vacuum Greenhouse Gases From the Sky Many scientists are skeptical of the technology, and environmentalists have criticized the approach. By Coral Davenport via Reuters How Climate Change Turned Lush Hawaii Into a Tinderbox Declining rainfall, rising temperatures and invasive species have left the islands more susceptible to wildfires. 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