Court Won’t Intervene in Fate of Nuclear Dump
By MATTHEW L. WALD
An appeals court cautioned that it would reconsider if the Nuclear Regulatory Commission refused to act.
A Fight Over Keeping Boards in the Boardwalk
By JOSEPH BERGER
The city’s efforts to stop using endangered tropical hardwoods as it replaces the Coney Island Boardwalk’s planks raise aesthetic, pragmatic and linguistic issues.
Tracing Unscooped Dog Waste Back to the Culprit
By KATIE ZEZIMA
Canine DNA is now being used to identify the culprits who fail to clean up after their pets.
OBSERVATORY
Images of Fossil Birds Show Ancient Pigments
By KENNETH CHANG
One of the biological molecules scientists have identified in specimens more than 100 million years old is still active today in some creatures. In humans, it colors brown eyes and dark hair.
In Fight Against Trash Station, Upper East Side Cites Injustice
By MIREYA NAVARRO
A review of census tracts within roughly a half-mile of the existing waste transfer stations confirms that most of them are in moderate- to extremely low-income neighborhoods.
Graphic: The Demographics of GarbageScience Times: June 28, 2011
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A Release Valve for Cyclists’ Unrelenting Pressure
By JOHN TIERNEY
New noseless saddles can save cyclists from soreness and numbness in the genital region, but their popularity is lagging.
One Math Museum, Many Variables
By KENNETH CHANG
Glen Whitney’s museum in New York aims to shape cultural attitudes and dispel the bad rap that most people give math.
ON VIEW
Paying Homage to Darwin in an Unconventional Format: Rap
By DENNIS OVERBYE
A new play serves as a lecture on Darwin and natural selection disguised as a rant on the history of rap, gangs and murder in Chicago, and much more.
Greatest Threat to Caribou Herd in Canada Isn’t From Wolves
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
By looking at hormone levels in caribou scat, scientists found that when humans were most active in an area, caribou nutrition was poorest and psychological stress highest.
Magnetic Field Sensed by Gene, Study Shows
By NICHOLAS WADE
A researcher suggests that humans, like butterflies and other animals, can sense the earth’s magnetic field and use it to navigate.
Health
Rinderpest, Scourge of Cattle, Is Vanquished
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
The disease, a killer of livestock in much of the world, becomes only the second, after smallpox, to be eradicated.
Timeline: History of a Virus
- Video: A Disease Eradicated
The Takeaway: Donald McNeil Talks About Rinderpest
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Concerns About Costs Rise With Hospices’ Use
By JORDAN RAU
Medicare’s bill for end-of-life care quadrupled from 2000 to 2009, and claims of misuse mounted.
More News
Debris Gives Space Station Crew Members a 29,000-M.P.H. Close Call
By KENNETH CHANG
Six crew members on the International Space Station took refuge in two capsules they would use to escape in case the station needed to be abandoned.
George Ballas, Inventor of the Weed Whacker, Dies at 85
Across Europe, Irking Drivers Is Urban Policy
Observatory: Weevils’ Legs Hide Hardware-Store Technology
Scientist at Work Blog: What's in a Name?
Drilling Down: Behind Veneer, Doubt on Future of Natural Gas
Cuomo Takes Tough Stance on Nuclear Reactors
Plan Issued to Save Northern Spotted Owl
By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Twenty years after the northern spotted owl was listed as a threatened species, the federal government offered a plan to prevent the bird from going extinct.Herder Perceptions of Climate Change
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Q & A
The Yawning Gap
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY
There is growing evidence linking excessive yawning to temperature imbalances, and cases of yawning during sleep have been documented.OBSERVATORY
Cold-Blooded Dinosaurs As Warm as Humans
By SINDYA N. BHANOO
Testing the chemical composition of dinosaur teeth, researchers found that some sauropods were warmer than modern crocodiles and alligators.OBSERVATORY
Effects of Early Bullying Don’t Last in Birds
By SINDYA N. BHANOO
A new study of blue-footed boobies suggests that bullying in childhood does not affect the aggression levels of adult birds.OBSERVATORY
Saturn Moon’s Surface May Conceal Salty Ocean
By SINDYA N. BHANOO
A new analysis of particles ejected from Saturn’s moon Enceladus suggests there is a salt-water ocean feeding its geyserlike plumes.Podcast: Science Times
This week: The end of a deadly disease, dispelling myths about math, and the truth about sunscreen.Health Columns
PERSONAL HEALTH
Along the Spine, Women Buckle at Breaking Points
By JANE E. BRODY
Vertebral fractures affect a quarter of postmenopausal women and account for half of the 1.5 million fractures due to bone loss each year in the United States.REALLY?
Really? The Claim: Exercising on an Empty Stomach Burns More Fat
By ANAHAD O'CONNOR
While it seems to make sense, research shows that exercising in this way doesn’t offer any benefit and may even work against you.
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