Oil Spill in South Atlantic Threatens Endangered Penguins
By JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF
A major spill of heavy crude oil from a wrecked freighter has coated roughly 20,000 highly endangered penguins on a remote South Atlantic island chain.
Science Times: March 22, 2011
Blindsided by Ferocity Unleashed by a Fault
By KENNETH CHANG
Tomohiko Kano/Mainichi Simbun, via Associated Press
TAME THE FURY A tsunami wave crashed over the breakwater in the coastal city of Miyako on March 11 in northeastern Japan. “I was surprised,” one scientist said. “Nobody expected magnitude 9.”
The devastation in Japan raises a worrisome question: How many quakes are lurking in underestimated fault lines?
Dangers of Leaving No Resident Behind
By GARDINER HARRIS
As the Japanese are learning, the science behind herding thousands, sometimes millions, of people from danger to safety is uncertain at best.
Radiation, Once Free, Can Follow Tricky Path
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
How — and how fast — radioactive elements travel depends on many factors, including weather, soil and what they land on first.
F.D.A. Bans Some Food Imports From Japan
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The F.D.A. is temporarily halting imports of dairy products and produce from the area of Japan where a nuclear reactor is leaking radiation.
Viktor Koen
People pragmatically intuit that regardless of whether free will exists, our society depends on everyone’s believing it does.
A CONVERSATION WITH SAMANTHA B. JOYE
Revisiting the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
By CLAUDIA DREIFUS
Dr. Joye, of the University of Georgia, directs a team seeking to understand the long-term effects of the leak on the chemistry and creatures of the gulf.
Tortoise and Hare, in a Laboratory Flask
By CARL ZIMMER
Scientists conducting a long-running study found that competition among E. coli bacteria produced a single dominant strain after 1,000 generations.
SCIENTIST AT WORK BLOG
How to Not Catch a Sea Turtle
By LEKELIA D. JENKINS
A scientist studying the use of marine conservation technologies in Ecuador explains how turtle excluder devices keep turtles out of fishing nets.
Health News
WELL BLOG
After a Diagnosis, Wishing for a Magic Number
By PETER B. BACH, M.D.
“What was the chance that my wife’s breast cancer would come back?” a cancer researcher writes
Riddled With Metal by Mistake in a Study
By DENISE GRADY
A device meant to shield healthy tissue from radiation during surgery for breast cancer left hundreds of tiny particles of the heavy metal tungsten inside dozens of patients.
Rear-Facing Car Seats Advised at Least to Age of 2
By MADONNA BEHEN
A pediatricians’ group now says that toddlers shouldn’t move to a forward-facing seat until at least age 2.
Global Update: Bangladesh Bans Sale of Palm Sap After an Unusually Lethal Oubreak
First Mention: In Vitro Fertilization, 1974
Vital Signs: Diet: Eating Fish Found to Ward Off Eye Disease
Vital Signs: Risks: Pain Drugs May Lead to Birth Defects
Vital Signs: Patterns: For Heart Risk, No Telltale Body Shape
More Science News
Open Networking Foundation Pursues New Standards
By JOHN MARKOFF
The benefits of new standards, proponents say, would be more flexible and secure networks that are less likely to suffer from congestion.
California: Scientist Accused of Bias
By FELICITY BARRINGER
An Interior Department report released Tuesday found that a scientist committed misconduct by misusing photographic evidence that appeared to contradict her contention that an oyster farm’s operations disturbed harbor seals.
Natural Gas Now Viewed as Safer Bet
By JAD MOUAWAD
The calamitous events in Japan may roll back the global nuclear revival and lead to a surge in natural gas demand.
Judge Halts California Emissions Plan
By REUTERS
The state did not adequately consider alternatives to its plan to create a cap-and-trade market for carbon emissions, the judge ruled.
Tweety Was Right: Cats Are a Bird’s No. 1 Enemy
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
While public attention has focused on wind turbines as a menace to birds, a new study shows that a far greater threat may be posed by a more familiar antagonist: the house cat.
Earthquake in Japan
Nuclear Industry in Russia Sells Safety, Taught by Chernobyl
By ANDREW E. KRAMER
The Japanese nuclear calamity provides Russia’s Rosatom with a new chance to stress its message: its reactors are safe, not despite Chernobyl but because of it.
Radiation Over U.S. Is Harmless, Officials Say
By WILLIAM J. BROAD
Officials tracking the plume drifting eastward from Japan say it arrived, enormously diluted, from the west and was moving toward Europe.
No Urgent Changes Seen for U.S. Nuclear Plants
By MATTHEW L. WALD
Inspectors at each nuclear site have been told to double-check that emergency precautions mandated years ago were still in place, an American official said on Monday.
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