Out There
The Leaky Science of Hollywood
By DENNIS OVERBYE
A new movie about Stephen Hawking’s life brings the man to life, but leaves viewers in the dark about what his science means.
NASA
A video showed Orbital Sciences Corporation’s unmanned Antares rocket exploding Tuesday just after its launch in Virginia.
Antares Rocket, Bound for Space Station, Explodes
By KENNETH CHANG
A cargo rocket carrying supplies exploded soon after it rose into the sky from a NASA site in eastern Virginia, but no one was injured.
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If you live with breast cancer, love someone with breast cancer or worry about your risk for breast cancer, you are part of a global community of women and men whose lives have been touched by the disease.
Reversing Course on Beavers
By JIM ROBBINS
Their dams were once obliterated by dynamite and bulldozers, but beavers are getting new respect these days as a defense against the withering impacts of a warmer and drier climate.
A Conversation With Naomi Oreskes
A Chronicler of Warnings Denied
By CLAUDIA DREIFUS
A historian of science imagines what future generations will make of our current handling of climate change.
Essay
Magic May Lurk Inside Us All
By C. NATHAN DeWALL
Several streams of research in psychology, neuroscience and philosophy are converging on an uncomfortable truth: We’re more susceptible to magical thinking than we’d like to admit.
ScienceTake
Tracking Sea Turtles as They Swim for Their Lives
By JAMES GORMAN
With the help of devices that weigh less than two-hundredths of an ounce, scientists got the first detailed records of the movements of newly hatched loggerhead turtles.
Basics
Ebola and the Vast Viral Universe
By NATALIE ANGIER
By all evidence, researchers say, viruses like Ebola have been parasitizing living cells since the first cells arose on earth nearly four billion years ago. Some say that viruses actually invented cells.
The Ebola Outbreak
Ebola May be Slowing in Liberia, W.H.O. Says
By RICK GLADSTONE
Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times
The reflection on an ambulance window of an Ebola outreach team in Kakata, Liberia.
The World Health Organization’s assistant director general said there had been a decline in burials in the West African nation and no increases in confirmed cases.
In Liberia, a Good or Very Bad Sign: Empty Hospital Beds
By SHERI FINK
Liberia has far fewer people being treated for Ebola than anticipated, but health officials are hesitant to declare victory.
Joint Chiefs Chairman Urges 21-Day Quarantine for Troops Working in Ebola Zone
By HELENE COOPER and MICHAEL D. SHEAR
Gen. Martin E. Dempsey’s recommendation comes a day after the C.D.C. issued new guidelines on how civilian health workers should be treated on their return to the United States.
Amber Joy Vinson, Dallas Nurse Treated for Ebola, Is Released From Hospital
By ALAN BLINDER
The nurse was one of two caregivers at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas who treated a Liberian man with the virus and contracted the disease.
Connecticut Tries to Find Middle Path on Ebola
By BENJAMIN MUELLER
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy affirmed a case-by-case approach to quarantines, but it has not quelled opposition.
New York’s Ebola Rules to Let Travelers Pick Site for Isolation
By MARC SANTORA and THOMAS KAPLAN
The Cuomo administration has issued a set of guidelines that go beyond federal recommendations but seek to allow individuals to spend their isolation in a location of their choice.
Unease Lingers in the Bronx Despite a Boy’s Negative Ebola Test
By WINNIE HU and VIVIAN YEE
Doubts and anxiety persist for neighbors in the 5-year-old boy’s building, with some suspicious that the test results are not accurate.
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Doctors Mystified by Paralysis in Dozens of Children
By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS
Kayana Szymczak for The New York Times
A 4-year-old boy who had experienced episodes of paralysis underwent physical therapy on Tuesday in Charlestown, Mass.
More than 50 children have had mysterious episodes of paralysis in 23 states and some doctors suspect a link to the enterovirus 68.
Long Island Confronts Destructive Southern Pine Beetles
By TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG
The beetles, which have been moving northward as a result of warmer winters, were found in three places in Suffolk County in late September.
Trying to Raise Profile of Climate Change for Washington Voters
By KIRK JOHNSON
The effort, by Thomas F. Steyer, has turned the battle over the State Senate into one of the most expensive legislative elections in state history.
15 Minutes of Free Fall Required Years of Taming Scientific Challenges
By JOHN MARKOFF
To reach the edge of space and return safely — without power — Alan Eustace used a methodical engineering strategy that has served him well at Google.
Education Life
This Is Your Brain on Drugs
By ABIGAIL SULLIVAN MOORE
New studies show that the effects of marijuana on young people may be greater than we thought. One has found brain differences even in casual smokers.
Podcast: Science Times
Nine women share their experiences with breast cancer.
Fighting Breast Cancer, and Winning
Podcast: Science Times
Beavers are in high demand across the driest parts of the United States for their innate abilities to keep water from draining away.
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Books
Healing the Metaphorical Heart
By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D.
Martha Weinman Lear returns to the territory she covered in “Heartsounds,” but this is not a sequel so much as a rueful epilogue, a brief account of her own recent skirmish with heart disease.
Global Health
Latrines May Not Improve Health of Poor Children
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
A major study in India has stunned advocates of latrine building by showing that it may do little good.
The Scan
A Mathematical Thriller and an Exhibition of What Could Go Wrong
By JASCHA HOFFMAN
Upcoming events include a thriller about a British mathematician, an exhibition on the science of natural disasters and a musical about the many worlds of the physicist Hugh Everett III.
Q&A
Vitiligo and Vision
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY
Vitiligo is mainly a skin disorder, but can it also harm my eyesight?
Rapidly Evolving Feet Do Not Fail Lizard Species
By DOUGLAS QUENQUA
A type of lizard in Florida took just 20 generations to evolve feet better suited to climbing trees, a new study suggests.
Fruit Flies Pass Mating Test With Flying Colors
By DOUGLAS QUENQUA
Bright colors appear on the wings of male fruit flies when held against a dark background, a characteristic that female fruit flies use to decide whom to mate with, researchers say.
Special Issue: Climate Change
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When sea ice melts and polar bears meet snow geese on their nests, the effects of climate change get complicated.
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