| |
Science news from New York Times
NYT > Science
Trilobites: Before You Flush Your Contact Lenses, You Might Want to Know This last updated on: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 13:48:13 GMT
Flushing disposable contacts down the toilet or washing them down the drain may contribute to the problem of microplastic pollution, researchers said.
Read the complete story
Trilobites: Hundreds of Reindeer Died by Lightning. Their Carcasses Became a Laboratory. last updated on: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 09:00:21 GMT
“From death comes life,” said researchers who studied how decomposing bodies, with the help of scavengers, might alter plant diversity across a broad landscape.
Read the complete story
Archaeologists Find 3,200-Year-Old Cheese in an Egyptian Tomb last updated on: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 03:26:21 GMT
The cheese was found in a tomb that had been thought lost to shifting sands until it was rediscovered in 2010.
Read the complete story
Settling Arguments About Hydrogen With 168 Giant Lasers last updated on: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 21:10:53 GMT
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory said they were “converging on the truth” in an experiment to understand hydrogen in its liquid metallic state.
Read the complete story
ScienceTake: The Secret to Ant Efficiency Is Idleness last updated on: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 18:00:07 GMT
To dig a nest tunnel quickly and get the most out of their efforts, 30 percent of fire ants do 70 percent of the work.
Read the complete story
Trilobites: Trapped in 99-Million-Year-Old Amber, a Beetle With Pilfered Pollen last updated on: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 16:44:04 GMT
The discovery is among the strongest evidence in the fossil record that the insects pollinated prehistoric cycads, a plant that preceded flowering plants.
Read the complete story
Latest Attraction at French Theme Park: Crows That Pick Up Trash last updated on: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 18:40:45 GMT
No, that crow casually holding a cigarette butt in its beak isn’t a smoker. It’s meant to “make people feel a little bit guilty” for littering.
Read the complete story
Matter: The ‘Zombie Gene’ That May Protect Elephants From Cancer last updated on: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 06:14:49 GMT
With such enormous bodies, elephants should be particularly prone to tumors. But an ancient gene in their DNA, somehow resurrected, seems to shield the animals.
Read the complete story
Fierce and Unpredictable: How Wildfires Became Infernos last updated on: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 19:50:41 GMT
A division of the U.S. Forest Service is studying fire behavior as the blazes in the West become hotter and spread faster than ever before.
Read the complete story
The Treatment Gap: This E.R. Treats Opioid Addiction on Demand. That’s Very Rare. last updated on: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 11:59:33 GMT
Some hospital emergency departments are giving people medicine for withdrawal, plugging a hole in a system that too often fails to provide immediate treatment.
Read the complete story
In San Francisco, Opioid Addiction Treatment Offered on the Streets last updated on: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 09:00:05 GMT
City health workers are handing out buprenorphine prescriptions to homeless people in hopes of getting them into treatment.
Read the complete story
Climate Has a Role in Wildfires? No. Wait, Yes. last updated on: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 00:08:51 GMT
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke laid the bulk of the blame for California’s blazes on “environmental terrorist groups.”
Read the complete story
Q&A: Companions for City Trees last updated on: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 18:15:25 GMT
If you’re going to add plants around a street tree, make sure they’re not too thirsty and have shallow roots.
Read the complete story
Sketchbook | Graphic Review: A Graphic Tribute to a Classic Work of Paleontological Literature last updated on: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 16:05:42 GMT
The children’s book author and illustrator David Nytra draws a review of William E. Scheele’s “Prehistoric Animals.”
Read the complete story
The New Old Age: A Retirement Community Turned Away These Married Women last updated on: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 09:00:18 GMT
According to the facility’s “cohabitation policy,” marriage is between one man and one woman, “as it is understood in the Bible.”
Read the complete story
F.D.A. Approves Generic EpiPen That May Be Cheaper last updated on: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 21:38:20 GMT
Teva Pharmaceuticals will sell a generic copy of Mylan’s EpiPen, which became the target of public outrage over its price.
Read the complete story
How Ants Avoid Traffic Jams last updated on: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 18:00:05 GMT
Ants have a lesson for humans on how to be more productive: Less is more. Here’s the ingenious trick the insects deploy for maximizing efficiency.
Read the complete story
Trilobites: Do Penguins Mate for Life? Not According to These Paternity Tests last updated on: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 16:19:23 GMT
New research challenges assumptions that some penguins mate for life, and suggests DNA testing is needed to avoid inbred captive populations.
Read the complete story
Review: Looking to the Stars, ‘Cielo’ Can’t Quite Form a Constellation last updated on: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 17:31:07 GMT
Alison McAlpine’s experimental feature tries to film an essentially unfilmable subject: the night sky above the Atacama Desert in Chile.
Read the complete story
Feature: The Scientist Who Scrambled Darwin’s Tree of Life last updated on: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 17:22:19 GMT
How the microbiologist Carl Woese fundamentally changed the way we think about evolution and the origins of life.
Read the complete story
With Short, Intense Sessions, Some Patients Finish Therapy in Just Weeks last updated on: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 19:40:12 GMT
The new psychological approach targets anxiety, PTSD and other mental disorders. Fewer people drop out with short-term treatment, and relief is quicker.
Read the complete story
Clues to Your Health Are Hidden at 6.6 Million Spots in Your DNA last updated on: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 15:03:21 GMT
With a sophisticated new algorithm, scientists have found a way to forecast an individual’s risks for five deadly diseases.
Read the complete story
They Thought Hemophilia Was a ‘Lifelong Thing.’ They May Be Wrong. last updated on: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 20:51:37 GMT
Experimental gene therapies have yielded promising results in early trials. But the drugs have left some patients worried that success will not last.
Read the complete story
|
