Nadia Drake
Former science writing intern and astronomy writer
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All Stories by Nadia Drake
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Space
Asteroid sample nails meteorite source
Dust returned from space by the Hayabusa mission shows where most space rocks landing on Earth originate.
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Planetary Science
White dwarfs gobble Earthlike treats
Astronomers have found elements in the dead stars’ atmospheres that suggest rocky planetary bodies once orbited the stars.
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Paleontology
Sea monsters made great mothers
Fossilized plesiosaur with fetus suggests ancient reptiles cared for their young.
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Life
A cougar in Connecticut
Using DNA and trailside cameras, wildlife biologists retrace the 18-month, 2,000-mile journey of a young male cat.
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Life
Dolphin may sense the body electric
Organs on the species' snout help it detect faint fields, like those generated by prey.
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Space
Going where no Mars rover has gone before
NASA's next Mars mission, Curiosity, will land in the Red Planet's Gale Crater.
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Life
The lion eats tonight …
Attacks on humans peak after a full moon, when feline bellies tend to rumble.
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Earth
Sulfur stalls surface temperature rise
A new study shows how pollutants helped balance out the effects of greenhouse gases from 1998 to 2008.
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Space
Most distant quasar raises questions
Superbright object appeared surprisingly soon after the Big Bang, challenging some theories about how black holes arose.