Pipe Leak at Nuclear Plant Raises Concerns
By MATTHEW L. WALD
The water leak at the Indian Point 2 plant in Buchanan, N.Y., is is stirring concern about its underground pipes.
Cyberwar
Iranians and Others Outwit Net Censors
By JOHN MARKOFF
Computers are becoming more crucial in global conflicts, not only in spying and military action, but also in determining what information reaches people.
Eden? Maybe. But Where’s the Apple Tree?
By NICHOLAS WADE
A new genetic survey of people in Africa suggests that the borderland where Angola and Namibia meet seems to be the origin of modern humans.
Panel Advises Clarifying U.S. Plans on Cyberwar
By JOHN MARKOFF and THOM SHANKER
A three-year study concluded that the U.S. has no clear policy about how it might respond to a cyberattack.
Bringing Efficiency to the Infrastructure
By STEVE LOHR
Environmentally friendly systems help to manage roads, rails and food distribution with low-cost sensors and clever software for analytics and visualization.
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A Tiny Hominid With No Place on the Family Tree
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Barron Storey
The extinct people nicknamed hobbits remain mystifying anomalies in human evolution, out of place in time and geography, their ancestry unknown.
Graphic: A Puzzling DiscoveryBasics
Bone, a Masterpiece of Elastic Strength
By NATALIE ANGIER
From a man with two skeletons, insight into what keeps us moving.
Scientist at Work
To Fathom a Colony’s Talk and Toil, Studying Insects One by One
By ADELE CONOVER
Anna Dornhaus is breaking new ground in her studies of whether the efficiency of ant society is important to their success.
Slide Show: A World of Ants
On a Hunt for Fishless Lakes, Teeming With Life
By MURRAY CARPENTER
Researchers are conducting an ecological review in Maine, as fishless lakes, home to a greater abundance and variety of invertebrates than lakes with fish, become increasingly rare.
Books
Snapshots From the Days of Bare-Hands Anatomy
By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D.
Capturing a photo craze inspired by cadavers of flesh and blood.
Aging: Reminders of Age Undermine Memory
By ERIC NAGOURNEY
Older people who believe that memory loss goes hand in hand with aging may be undermining their own performance, a new study says.
Multimedia
Audio Slide Show: The Hubble Repairman
John Grunsfeld, a NASA astronaut and scientist, describes his final space mission, scheduled for May 11, to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
Interactive Feature: Quiz: Test Your Estimation Abilities
How many times a year does the average American teenager say the word “like”?
Audio Slide Show: A Slow Comeback for the Right Whale
Cornelia Dean describes how conservationists are working to sustain and increase North Atlantic right whale populations.
Interactive Graphic: On Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’
Evolutionary biologists and historians of science comment on Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species.”
The Swine Flu
Asia Reports First Case of Swine Flu, in Hong Kong
By KEITH BRADSHER and SHARON OTTERMAN
The arrival of a Mexican traveler with the flu at a Hong Kong hospital re-awoke memories of the SARS outbreak.
Flu TrackerVirus’s Tangled Genes Straddle Continents, Raising a Mystery About Its Origins
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Swine flu appears to have a combination of genes from two normally separate sets of pigs, those from the Americas and from Eurasia, scientists say.
Will More Food Simply Boost Population?
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Genes, Food and the Path Toward 9 Billion
April 30, 2009
Obama's Call to Create, Not Just Consume
April 27, 2009
Contagion on a Small Planet
April 26, 2009
Industry's Advisers on Climate
April 24, 2009
What If Scientists Didn't Compete?
April 30, 2009
Russell Crowe Prize Poem
April 28, 2009
The Unknown Puzzle
April 27, 2009
Killer Rabbit Prize Poem
April 24, 2009
Faked Evidence of 'Gay Conversion'?
April 23, 2009
Podcast: Science Times
David Corcoran, a science editor, explores some of the topics addressed in this week’s Science Times.
Columns
Observatory
For Tough Recyclables, a Self-Mending Plastic
By HENRY FOUNTAIN
Chemists have devised a thermoset plastic that, rather than decomposing, heals itself when heated.
Personal Health
Paying a Price for Loving Red Meat
By JANE E. BRODY
A new study shows that red meat has had a severe impact on our health and longevity.
Cases
When Bad Advice Is the Best Advice
By PETER A. UBEL, M.D.
Leaving hard decisions to the patient can mean taking the easy way out.
Really?
The Claim: Eating Parsley Can Eliminate Bad Breath
By ANAHAD O'CONNOR
Does this green herb have antibacterial properties similar to mouthwash?
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Aetiology
What does the WHO's pandemic scale mean? And why is anyone worried about this?
April 30, 2009
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