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.
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.
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.
A new movie about Stephen Hawking’s life brings the man to life, but leaves viewers in the dark about what his science means.
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 historian of science imagines what future generations will make of our current handling of climate change.
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.
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.
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 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.
Liberia has far fewer people being treated for Ebola than anticipated, but health officials are hesitant to declare victory.
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.
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.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy affirmed a case-by-case approach to quarantines, but it has not quelled opposition.
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.
Doubts and anxiety persist for neighbors in the 5-year-old boy’s building, with some suspicious that the test results are not accurate.
More than 50 children have had mysterious episodes of paralysis in 23 states and some doctors suspect a link to the enterovirus 68.
The beetles, which have been moving northward as a result of warmer winters, were found in three places in Suffolk County in late September.
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.
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.
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.
Nine women share their experiences with breast cancer.
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.
A major study in India has stunned advocates of latrine building by showing that it may do little good.
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.
Vitiligo is mainly a skin disorder, but can it also harm my eyesight?
A type of lizard in Florida took just 20 generations to evolve feet better suited to climbing trees, a new study suggests.
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.
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Animal and plant species around the world may be threatened by warmer global temperatures.
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