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Stone-Washed Blue Jeans (Minus the Washed)
By LESLIE KAUFMAN
Levi Strauss sees the efficient use of water by farmers and consumers as crucial to the future of its blue jeans business.
Catching a Wave, and Measuring It
By QUENTIN HARDY
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A Wave Glider being launched off the coast of California.
A California company is working to network a fleet of oceangoing robots to measure the data of the sea.
Reactor in Japan Restarts, a First Since the Tsunami
By HIROKO TABUCHI
The reactor, in Saga Prefecture in western Japan, is the first to win approval from a local government to resume operations since the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
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Michael S. Gazzaniga, after a long career at the top of his field, is spelling out a cautionary tale about the uses of neuroscience in society.
Video: A Life in Science
Clockwise from top left: B.G. Thomson/Photo Researchers; Photo Researchers, via Getty Images; Ian Waldie, via Getty Images; and Steffen Schmidt.
Midsize cane toads lure younger cane toads, which the bigger toads then swallow whole. A mother caecilian, top right, stays by her young and literally feeds them herself. Tamarin monkeys don't eat their offspring, except when they do. The female redback spider makes a meal of her mates.
Animal cannibalism used to be considered accidental or pathological, but scientists now realize that it can sometimes make good evolutionary sense.
Health News
A Tumor Is No Clearer in Hindsight
By DENISE GRADY
Steve Jobs’s decision to delay an operation to remove a tumor may not have been as ill considered as it seems at first blush.
A Nursing Home Shrinks Until It Feels Like a Home
By LAURIE TARKAN
The Green House concept is the most comprehensive effort to reinvent the nursing home, including the way medical care is delivered.
In Theory
In Some Cases, Even Bad Bacteria May Be Good
By KATE MURPHY
A researcher asserts that antibiotics are permanently altering microbial flora of the human body, with unforeseen consequences.
The Downside of Doctors Who Feel Your Pain
By LISA ROSENBAUM, M.D.
The ideal physician surely possesses both competence and compassion. Will our quest to eradicate the coldhearted doctor be another fad with consequences we may regret?
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Captain Scott’s Lost Photographs
Newly released photographs taken by Robert Falcon Scott during his expedition to the South Pole from 1910-1913 have recently been released.
Video: Susan Desmond-Hellmann
An interview with the oncologist, translational scientist and former Genentech executive now leading the University of California, San Francisco.
Television Review
Empty Times Square Is Fantasy; The Stranger Stuff Is Science
By DENNIS OVERBYE
With the physicist Brian Greene as host, “The Fabric of the Cosmos” on PBS looks at the latest scientific developments in understanding the universe and time.
Science Columns
Observatory
For a Giant Single-Celled Organism, Home Is the Deepest Address on the Planet
By SINDYA N. BHANOO
Researchers returning from an expedition to the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific say it is home to giant single-celled organisms more than four inches long.
Observatory
Staying Cool After a Slog With a Sleigh Isn’t Easy
By SINDYA N. BHANOO
Researchers have discovered that reindeer use a combination of strategies to keep cool, including sometimes panting like a dog.
Observatory
New Mummy Insights, No Dissecting Needed
By SINDYA N. BHANOO
Scientists have used X-rays and CT scans to reveal new information about a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy.
Q & A
Lost in Space
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY
Death by vacuum is not spectacular or instantaneous, unless the subject tries to hold his breath.
For Parched Times, a New Water Calculus
November 2, 2011
A Challenge to Europe's Airline Emissions Curbs
November 2, 2011
Could 'Smart' Textiles Prove Toxic?
November 2, 2011
Podcast: Science Times
This week: Left brain meets right brain, Fiji’s coral reefs and debating high-end medical treatments.
Health Columns
Personal Health
A Reminder on Maintaining Bone Health
By JANE E. BRODY
Some 10 million Americans have osteoporosis, and 34 million more with low bone mass are at risk of developing this silent disease.
Really?
The Claim: For a More Restful Nap, Avoid Caffeine
By ANAHAD O'CONNOR
Researchers tested sleep-deprived subjects in driving simulators to explore the effectiveness of nap-and-coffee therapy.
Opinion
Dot Earth Blog
Book Report: Who Speaks for the Climate?
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
A new book explores the issues created by, and shaping, media coverage of human-driven global warming.
Wordplay Blog
Numberplay: Treat or Trick
By GARY ANTONICK
Skulls, monsters, and skulls/monsters. But which bowl contains which?
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