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At the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan, 95-foot tanks used to store contaminated water abound. Ko Sasaki for The New York Times

'Hail Mary' at Fukushima Daiichi: An Underground Ice Wall

By MARTIN FACKLER

The project is designed to keep water out of the damaged reactor buildings at the nuclear power plant, and radioactive water from reaching the Pacific. Critics say it may not work.

John Kappelman, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Texas at Austin, with 3D printouts of Lucy's skeleton.

Marsha Miller/University of Texas at Austin

A 3.2 Million-Year-Old Mystery: Did Lucy Fall From a Tree?

By CARL ZIMMER

A team of scientists recently concluded that Lucy, a hominid whose skeleton was discovered in 1974, died from a long fall — but their study has divided experts.

The leaves of a dead oak tree in Tomales Bay State Park in Marin County, Calif.

Gabrielle Lurie for The New York Times

Like Tens of Millions of Matchsticks, California's Dead Trees Stand Ready to Burn

By CYNTHIA H. CRAFT

A complex convergence of factors — the drought, bark beetles, a pathogen spreading sudden oak death, and human failings — has devastated huge, breathtaking forest areas.

Dogs that were trained to enter an M.R.I. machine for the research.

Enik Kubinyi

With Dogs, It's What You Say — and How You Say It

By JAMES GORMAN

New research suggests that dogs respond to meaning and intonation in human voices.

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Harnessing the Firenado

By ROBIN LINDSAY AND JAMES GORMAN

A new, blue, whirling shape of fire, inspired by a 2011 Jim Beam bourbon conflagration, could one day help clean up oil spills.

An artist's impression of the planet Proxima b orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to Earth's sun.

One Star Over, a Planet That Might Be Another Earth

By KENNETH CHANG

Scientists last week announced the discovery of a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest neighbor to our solar system. It might someday be possible to reach.

• Op-Ed: What's So Special About Another Earth?

Demi Lovato at the Democratic convention. She was accused of stealing material from the band Sleigh Bells for one of her songs.

The Accidental Plagiarist in All of Us

By STEPH YIN

To differing degrees, we've all been guilty of cryptomnesia, the process of claiming an original thought already encountered elsewhere.

Images show the damage inflicted on the heads of twin girls born with the Zika virus.

Brain Scans of Brazilian Babies Show Array of Zika Effects

By PAM BELLUCK

The images show that the virus can inflict serious damage to many different parts of the fetal brain beyond microcephaly, the condition of unusually small heads.

• All Donated Blood in U.S. Should Be Tested for Zika, F.D.A. Says

• In Reaction to Zika Outbreak, Echoes of Polio

A MammaPrint microarray of two tumor biopsies: low risk (top) and high risk (bottom). Active genes, including many that help tumors grow and spread, show up red, and inactive ones green.

Test Identifies Breast Cancer Patients Who Can Skip Chemotherapy

By DENISE GRADY

Researchers found that nearly half of women with early breast cancer can safely avoid the treatment with little risk of cancer recurring or spreading in five years.