Timef 12/20/2025
- How to Watch the Ursids Winter Solstice Meteor Shower nytimes.com2025-12-20 18:02:21
The Ursids this weekend are a winter solstice light show.
- Controversial Dakota Pipeline Gets a Big, Belated Government Boost nytimes.com2025-12-20 04:37:07
A delayed environmental review cleared the Dakota Access Pipeline to continue operating. Separately, a North Dakota judge expressed unusual exasperation over the tangled legal battles.
- Suspect in MIT Professor’s Death Was an Ex-Classmate from Portugal, Prosecutors Say nytimes.com2025-12-20 04:07:19
Nuno F.G. Loureiro, the professor, and the man suspected in his killing attended the same physics program in Portugal during the 1990s.
- The Meek Really Did Inherit the Earth, at Least Among Ants nytimes.com2025-12-20 03:00:07
How did ants take over the world? The answer may be skin deep.
- Museum of the Earth and Its Fossil Collection Fight Their Own Extinction nytimes.com2025-12-20 01:44:03
A funding crisis at the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N.Y., could scatter priceless specimens and end nearly a century of pioneering research.
- A Somber Mood at Science Meeting as Trump Budget Cuts Continue nytimes.com2025-12-20 01:21:49
News of the breakup of a leading science institution rippled through an annual gathering of Earth, ocean and space scientists. Many say American science is suffering under the Trump administration.
