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Activists Fight Green Projects, Seeing U.N. Plot
Saturday, February 4, 2012 1:04:04 AM CST
Suspicious of government initiatives, protesters linked to the Tea Party are denouncing all manner of measures they equate with a 1992 United Nations resolution, Agenda 21.
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City Room: Colliding Continents Created the Rock Formation in a Children's Playground
Sunday, February 5, 2012 1:30:17 PM CST
We all know that our skyscrapers are built on bedrock, even if they have to reach down a way to find it. But not many of us know that a few bedrock outcrops are visible in mid-Manhattan.
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China Fires Officials for Not Reporting Toxic Spill
Sunday, February 5, 2012 12:10:05 AM CST
The spill, which affected 200 miles of the Longjiang River in southern China, was caused by two companies that accidentally released tons of cadmium.
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Roger Boisjoly, 73, Dies; Warned of Shuttle Danger
Saturday, February 4, 2012 12:23:02 AM CST
Mr. Boisjoly wrote a portentous memo six months before the Space Shuttle Challenger’s explosion, warning that if it was too cold, seals connecting sections of the shuttle’s rocket boosters could fail.
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Fessenheim Journal: Wishing Upon an Atom in a Tiny French Village
Friday, February 3, 2012 1:10:02 PM CST
In the village of Fessenheim, an aging nuclear plant stirs both protests and support over the use of nuclear power across France.
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Scientist at Work Blog: One Moose, Two Moose
Friday, February 3, 2012 5:03:17 PM CST
Counting Isle Royale moose can be a tedious task that requires great dedication. But each moose has its own life story.
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National Briefing | New England: Maine: Emergency Plan Would Limit Cod Fishing
Friday, February 3, 2012 12:28:59 AM CST
Fishermen from Cape Cod, Mass., to northern Maine would have to reduce the amount of cod they catch under an emergency proposal by the New England Fishery Management Council.
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Deal to Salvage Britain’s Victory May Yield Richest Trove
Thursday, February 2, 2012 11:00:46 AM CST
The wreck of the warship Victory has been a topic of public debate in Britain because documents suggest it carried gold coins that today could be worth up to $1 billion.
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National Briefing | Mid-Atlantic: Delaware: Some Sturgeon Declared to Be Endangered
Thursday, February 2, 2012 12:40:06 AM CST
Several populations of Atlantic sturgeon, the large, primordial-looking fish that were once common along East Coast watersheds, are endangered, the National Marine Fisheries Service declared Tuesday.
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National Briefing | Science: Panel Praises Removal of Details on Bird Flu
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 9:20:14 AM CST
Removing information from manuscripts describing experiments that made a lethal bird flu more likely to transmit among humans “maximized the benefits to society and minimized the risks,” the government’s biosecurity panel said.
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National Briefing | Washington: Map of Earthquake Risks Is Updated
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 9:23:02 AM CST
A new map detailing all known geologic faults east of Denver was issued Tuesday by the government and Electric Power Research Institute, a nonprofit electric research group.
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Basics: These Mammals Pack a Toxic Punch
Friday, February 3, 2012 10:23:02 AM CST
For protection, mammals generally rely on teeth, claws, muscles, keen senses or quick wits. Every so often, however, a mammalian lineage discovers the wonders of chemistry.
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Gains in DNA Are Speeding Research Into Human Origins
Friday, February 3, 2012 10:40:06 AM CST
Remains from a Siberian cave and faster, cheaper technology are helping scientists draw a complex new picture of human origins.
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Bismarck’s Voice Among Restored Edison Recordings
Friday, February 3, 2012 11:00:04 AM CST
A trove of wax cylinder phonograph records contains the only known recording of Otto von Bismarck.
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A Conversation With Ruslan M. Medzhitov: A Long Journey to Immune System Insights
Friday, February 3, 2012 10:50:06 AM CST
A paper on a theory of immunity led a doctoral student from Moscow to groundbreaking work in the United States.
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Scientists Examine Hope Diamond for Clues to Its Blue
Friday, February 3, 2012 11:00:04 AM CST
The diamond holds a different allure for those studying the history of the Earth.
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Update: Homeless Science Whiz Goes to Washington
Friday, February 3, 2012 11:00:04 AM CST
Intel Science Talent Search semifinalist Samantha Garvey got a grand tour of Washington this week.
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Alzheimer’s Spreads in the Brain Like a Virus, Studies Find
Thursday, February 2, 2012 11:12:23 AM CST
The discovery in studies of mice solves a mystery surrounding the disease’s grim march and has immediate implications for developing treatments, researchers said.
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Dr. Richard K. Olney, A.L.S. Researcher, Dies at 64.
Sunday, February 5, 2012 9:58:18 AM CST
Dr. Olney, a leading researcher of A.L.S., commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, learned in 2004 that he himself had it.
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AIDS Prevention Inspires Ways to Simplify Circumcision
Friday, February 3, 2012 10:30:06 AM CST
Donors are pinning their hopes on several devices being tested in efforts to increase speed and reduce pain.
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Cases: Feeling Strain When Violent Patients Need Care
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 11:08:09 PM CST
A rising number of registered nurses rank "on-the-job assault" as one of their three greatest safety concerns.
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Books: In Search of the Elusive Definition of Heterosexuality
Friday, February 3, 2012 11:00:07 AM CST
A concept that didn’t seem to need naming until quite recently.
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Non-Specialists Expand Into Lucrative Cosmetic Surgery Procedures
Friday, February 3, 2012 11:08:43 AM CST
With declining insurance reimbursements, more doctors are expanding their practices to include things like breast augmentation and liposuction paid for out-of-pocket by patients.
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Patient Voices: Changed, but Not Defined, by Hemophilia
Friday, February 3, 2012 11:08:43 AM CST
Three people living with hemophilia talk about how the condition affects their lives.
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SCIENCE: Eric Lander
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 1:39:19 PM CST
An interview with the mathematician and geneticist behind the Human Genome Project and the Broad Institute.
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SCIENCE: The Far Side of the Moon
Friday, February 3, 2012 3:56:07 PM CST
NASA on Thursday released a video taken as one of the twin spacecraft in its Grail mission passed over the far side of the Moon.
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Scientist at Work Blog: A Wolf-Moose Standoff at Isle Royale
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 7:11:54 AM CST
When a moose stands down a pack of wolves, sometimes the wolves move on after a few minutes. Sometimes they remain for days.
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Green Blog: A Bay Area Experiment in Electric Bike Sharing
Monday, February 6, 2012 11:12:31 AM CST
A program will encourage people to drive less or give up cars altogether, with far less sweat.
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Green Blog: On Our Radar: A Chinese Challenge on Airline Emissions
Monday, February 6, 2012 6:55:43 AM CST
China says it has instructed its airlines not to comply with European Union rules requiring carriers to pay to offset their emissions.
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Green Blog: Report: Sierra Club Accepted Gas Industry Money
Friday, February 3, 2012 12:14:19 PM CST
An article raises the issue of whether the Sierra Club's support of natural gas as a "bridge fuel" was influenced by donations from the gas industry.
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Q & A: Are There Drops to Reverse Eye Dilation?
Friday, February 3, 2012 10:50:03 AM CST
A drug that helps the effects of eye-dilating drops fade faster exists, but is no longer sold in the United States.
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Observatory: Black Dinosaur Feathers May Have Helped Archaeopteryx Fly
Friday, February 3, 2012 10:50:03 AM CST
An Archaeopteryx fossil was microscopically examined for pigment clues, which were compared with cells of living birds.
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Observatory: Marine Turtles’ Mating Habits Make Up for Male Shortage
Friday, February 3, 2012 10:53:01 AM CST
A vast majority of babies are female, but the disparity fades as a factor by the time green turtles are old enough to breed.
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Observatory: Jumping Spiders Focus Eyes Like a Camera to Hunt
Friday, February 3, 2012 10:50:03 AM CST
A technique called image defocus, which blurs the background while sharpening the prey, shows how far to pounce.
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Personal Health: Communities Learn the Good Life Can Be a Killer
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 11:10:41 PM CST
The sedentary comforts of suburban expansion have fostered obesity, poor health, social isolation, excessive stress and depression.
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Really?: The Claim: Never Go to Bed Angry
Monday, January 30, 2012 9:47:52 AM CST
Going to sleep after experiencing negative emotions appears to reinforce or "preserve" them, research suggests.
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Dot Earth Blog: In Overheated Climate Fight, a Search for Commonality
Saturday, February 4, 2012 11:45:26 AM CST
A search for common ground among people deeply split over greenhouse-driven global warming.
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Wordplay Blog: Numberplay: Ordering in Circles
Monday, January 30, 2012 6:36:42 PM CST
A puzzle based on a very simple idea of summing small integers arranged in a circle to magically generate all the numbers in order, without end.
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Letters: Marred Portrait of Disgust (2 Letters)
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:00:06 AM CST
Letters to the editor.
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Letters: Fluoridation Pro and Con (2 Letters)
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:00:06 AM CST
Letters to the editor.