The New York Times

How California Plans to Go Far Beyond Any Other State on Climate California wants to cut greenhouse gas emissions more than even President Barack Obama had proposed. But can the state pull it off, or will it falter?... Pubdate: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:11:59 GMT

Trilobites: Fungi Physics: How Those Spores Launch Just Right Ultrahigh-speed video footage helped researchers determine how fungi aim their spores in the right direction.... Pubdate: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 11:37:45 GMT

Want to Be Happy? Buy More Takeout and Hire a Maid, Study Says Researchers found that spending money to save time actually makes people happier.... Pubdate: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 11:44:54 GMT

Marina Ratner, Émigré Mathematician Who Found Midlife Acclaim, Dies at 78 Dr. Ratner defied the notion that the brightest in her field do their best work when they are young.... Pubdate: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 01:07:08 GMT

A Rest Stop for Half a Billion Birds During their migration between Europe and Africa, hundreds of millions of birds stop in Israel to rest and refuel. Hop aboard a government-sponsored tractor spreading birdseed and corn to keep the birds away from local crop fields.... Pubdate: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 09:00:02 GMT

What We Finally Got Around to Learning at the Procrastination Research Conference For the last 20 years, academic researchers have gathered at this event to share and debate their studies without being mocked.... Pubdate: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:12:52 GMT

It’s High Time for Ticks, Which Are Spreading Diseases Farther The disease-carrying blood suckers are spreading more pathogens and putting more Americans at risk for rare illnesses.... Pubdate: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 19:17:19 GMT

An Experiment in Zurich Brings Us Nearer to a Black Hole’s Mysteries IBM researchers used an exotic material known as a Weyl semimetal to confirm the existence of a gravitational anomaly predicted in equations that describe the universe.... Pubdate: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 17:45:59 GMT

Video of Shark, Seemingly Bound and Dragged by a Boat, Under Investigation Florida officials are looking into the video, which was posted on Instagram, but it remains unclear exactly what the creature was, whether it was alive and where the video was taken.... Pubdate: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 13:22:04 GMT

Charlie Gard Set to Die in a Hospice After Parents Accept He Can’t Go Home There was still no decision on the timing and circumstances of the chronically ill infant’s being taken off life support, however.... Pubdate: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 13:17:56 GMT

China and India File Rival Claims Over Tibetan Medicine In Unesco applications, the neighbors are trying to formally tie Tibetan medicine, an ancient practice with a growing commercial value, to their national patrimonies.... Pubdate: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 04:01:21 GMT

Case of Zika Virus, Likely Spread by Mosquito, Is Reported in Texas For the first time this year, health officials have documented a case of local mosquito transmission of the virus within the contiguous United States.... Pubdate: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 20:33:03 GMT

Celgene to Pay $280 Million to Settle Fraud Suit Over Cancer Drugs The lawsuit accused the pharmaceutical company of marketing Thalomid and Revlimid for unapproved use on a broader range of cancers.... Pubdate: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 00:42:50 GMT

Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara, Longevity Expert, Dies at (or Lives to) 105 The advice of Dr. Hinohara, who cautioned against early retirement and advocated climbing stairs regularly, helped make Japan the world leader in longevity.... Pubdate: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 22:53:36 GMT

Q&A: Even Tiny Changes in Earth’s Orbit Would Yield Global Catastrophe A minute alteration in the planet’s trajectory around the sun would have disastrous results, a scientist estimates.... Pubdate: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 17:13:56 GMT

Richard Dawkins Event Canceled Over Past Comments About Islam A Berkeley radio station canceled an event promoting Mr. Dawkins’s new book, citing past comments and tweets that it said had “hurt people.”... Pubdate: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 13:59:50 GMT

Scott Pruitt Spent Much of Early Months at E.P.A. Traveling Home, Report Says The agency’s new chief spent 43 of 92 days from March through May in Oklahoma or traveling to or from the state, a watchdog group found.... Pubdate: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 04:01:17 GMT

With More Ships in the Arctic, Fears of Disaster Rise A decline in sea ice is allowing more marine travel, but experts say the remote region is unprepared to face an emergency at sea.... Pubdate: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 00:52:01 GMT

Companies Rush to Develop ‘Utterly Transformative’ Gene Therapies Gene therapy for cancer is becoming a reality but works best for blood cancers like leukemia and not yet in more common ones like lung cancer.... Pubdate: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 19:05:16 GMT

Bag With Moon Dust in It Fetches $1.8 Million From a Mystery Buyer A lunar landing, a museum loan, a theft, a critical error, a legal battle — and now, a sale at auction. What’s next for this bag of moon dust?... Pubdate: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 21:26:58 GMT

Trilobites: The Rhythms That Make Elephant Seals Run or Fight New research suggests that elephant seals use rhythm to recognize and respond to other members of their species in the wild.... Pubdate: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 20:50:52 GMT

The Shift: As Self-Driving Cars Near, Washington Plays Catch-Up Congress is taking its first steps to regulate autonomous vehicles, as the technology moves closer to fruition.... Pubdate: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 14:02:08 GMT

Australia Seeks to Extend Commercial Fishing in Protected Waters The government wants to allow fishing in 80 percent of the country’s protected maritime reserves, up from the current 64 percent.... Pubdate: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 10:13:11 GMT

A Cheap Fix for Climate Change? Pay People Not to Chop Down Trees A new experiment showed a simple way to save endangered chimpanzees in Uganda and slow the rate of global warming and carbon dioxide emissions.... Pubdate: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 18:00:17 GMT

Trilobites: A Sensor on Your Skin That Looks and Feels Like a Temporary Tattoo Researchers have developed a new breathable, wearable sensor that can monitor vital signals without irritating skin.... Pubdate: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 15:39:22 GMT

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