Viewing Where the Internet Goes

Will 2014 be the year that the Internet is reined in? When Edward J. Snowden, the disaffected National Security Agency contract employee, purloined tens of thousands of classified documents from computers around the world, his actions — and their...

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The Week: Unsettling News on Knee Surgery, and a Striking Neanderthal Gene

"Houston, you've got yourself a new pump module," Col. Michael S. Hopkins said last Tuesday after some maintenance on the International Space Station. Repairs to the cooling system were needed after a valve malfunctioned, forcing astronauts to dim...

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Australia Plans Evacuation of Passengers Stranded in Ice

Andrew Peacock, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images An image from one of the passengers of the Akademik Shokalskiy shows the Russian research ship icebound off Antarctica. Maritime safety officials began preparations on Tuesday for a helicopter...

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The Cancer Divide: India’s Efforts to Aid Poor Worry Drug Makers

NEW DELHI — Alka Kudesia needs an expensive drug to treat her breast cancer, but refuses to tell her children for fear they will take out loans to buy the medicine and spend the rest of their lives in debt. "We're barely able to afford the treatment...

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Second Icebreaker Nears Ship Stranded Off Antarctica

Australian Maritime Safety Authority, via European Pressphoto Agency The view from the Akademik Shokalskiy, stuck in pack ice near Cape de la Motte, Antarctica. An Australian icebreaker was in sight early Monday. An Australian icebreaker worked...

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Solving Problems for Real World, Using Design

Jason Henry for The New York Times A common area for students at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford, commonly called the D.school. PALO ALTO — Akshay Kothari's first assignment at the D.school — formally known as the Hasso Plattner...

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Novelties: Reading Your Palm for Security’s Sake

They aren't taking any chances at Barclays Bank in Britain. Stating an account number and other bona fides isn't enough to get to your money at the bank's wealth and investment management service. As an additional safeguard, a program analyzes customers'...

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Dot Earth Blog: A Tutorial on Humanity’s Path to and Beyond 7 Billion

On Facebook, a friend posted a link this morning to a much-watched David Suzuki riff on exponential growth, bacterial reproduction and humanity's 59th minute: That led me to sift for other video content on this issue of meshing human development and...

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Brainlike Computers, Learning From Experience

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Computers have entered the age when they are able to learn from their own mistakes, a development that is about to turn the digital world on its head. The first commercial version of the new kind of computer chip is scheduled...

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2,500 Pigs Join Debate Over Farms vs. Scenery

Jacob Slaton for The New York Times The barns of C&H Hog Farms can be seen among the trees. Many nearby residents wonder how such a large facility ended up in a major tourist area. MOUNT JUDEA, Ark. — Anita Hudson's moment of realization came...

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New Energy Struggles on Its Way to Markets

WASHINGTON — To stave off climate change, sources of electricity that do not emit carbon will have to replace the ones that do. But at the moment, two of those largest sources, nuclear and wind power, are trying to kill each other off. In the electricity...

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World Briefing | Antarctica: First Attempts Fail to Free Ship Stranded by Heavy Ice

Icebreakers sent to free a stranded Russian research ship, the Akademik Shokalskiy, off Antarctica were stopped by heavy ice within sight of the ship, officials said early Saturday. A Chinese icebreaker in the area, the Xue Long, or Snow Dragon, was...

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World Briefing | The Americas: Chile: Indian Leader Found in Reservoir

A Mapuche Indian leader who became the face of Chile's environmental movement was found floating in a reservoir she spent a decade trying to prevent from being created, and the authorities said Wednesday that they were awaiting autopsy results although...

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New Tests for Brain Trauma Create Hope, and Skepticism

Revelations in recent years that thousands of former football players might have severe brain trauma from injuries sustained on the field have set off a rush in the medical community to seize the potentially lucrative market for assessing brain damage....

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Mantecal Journal: Venezuela’s Fitful Effort to Save a Scaly Predator

By Jimmy Chalk Meridith Kohut for The New York Times Rescuing a Predator: South America's largest crocodile is on the verge of extinction, and government and private efforts to rescue the species are having limited success. MANTECAL, Venezuela...

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Hotel Ducks Gone Wild May End Up in Hunters’ Sights

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The flooded prairies and backwaters along the Arkansas River are a dangerous place during hunting season for even the toughest of ducks. This year, locals learned that there has been a particularly vulnerable specimen: ducks...

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Jet Fuel by the Acre

Sandy Huffaker for The New York Times Robert Schmidt, left, SGB's chief scientist; Eric Mathur, chief technologist; and Kirk Haney, chief executive, with a jatropha bush. SAN DIEGO — In an unmarked greenhouse, leafy bushes carpet an acre of land...

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Essay: The Wind Cries ... Oe?

When I studied to become a pilot, I learned the names of the winds. It's hard to not be charmed by their poetry — the Sahara's Harmattan, France's Mistral, and the Oe, that consonant-denuded Faroe Islands whirlwind. But this Aeolian aristocracy...

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Catching Rays in California, and Storing Them

WASHINGTON — Solar power is growing so fast in California — with installations by customers increasing tenfold since 2006 — that it is turning the state's power system upside down. In a twist that is being closely watched by power companies around...

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Turning Tennis Rackets Into Data Centers

When Paolo Palmero plays tennis, he knows his racket can improve his game, not by adding power and spin but by measuring them. Palmero was among 50 applicants chosen this fall to test the new Babolat Play Pure Drive rackets with sensors that measure...

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