Bits Blog: Scientists Uncover Invisible Motion in Video

A 30-second video of a newborn baby shows the infant silently snoozing in its crib, his breathing barely perceptible. But when the video is run through an algorithm that can amplify both movement and color, the baby's face blinks crimson with each tiny...

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Drought Fells a Texas Town’s Biggest Employer

Michael Stravato for The New York Times Its cattle supply diminished by drought, the Cargill beef processing plant, the largest employer in Plainview, Tex., shut down on Feb. 1, leaving more than 2,000 people out of work. More Photos » PLAINVIEW,...

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I.B.M. Exploring New Feats for Watson

Robert Caplin for The New York Times I.B.M. plans to serve a breakfast pastry devised by Watson and the chef James Briscione at its meeting on Thursday. I.B.M.'s Watson beat "Jeopardy" champions two years ago. But can it whip up something tasty...

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Observatory: Ant Species Losing Ground to Venomous Kind

An aggressive species of ant may be losing ground in North America to a more aggressive — and potentially dangerous — species, according to a new study. Argentine ants long ago established dominance in many parts of the continent, thanks to their...

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Green Blog: A Report Card for Global Food Giants

The antipoverty group Oxfam has come up with a scorecard that evaluates the impact that the supply chains of behemoth food companies have on water consumption, labor and wages, greenhouse gas emissions and nutrition.The goal of the scorecard, called...

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Green Blog: Nature, Re-engineered to Meet Energy Needs

Thousands of inventors, engineers and entrepreneurs gathered in a suburban Washington convention center on Monday for the annual three-day meeting of Arpa-E, the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy. It wasn't quite the Oscars. At the registration...

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Green Blog: An Addendum on National Park Cuts

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar offered more details on Monday about how the automatic federal spending cuts set to take effect on Friday would hit national parks. With a budget cut of 5 percent, or $112 million, thousands of National Park Service employees...

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News Analysis: Proposed Brain Mapping Project Faces Significant Hurdles

In more than a century of scientific inquiry into the interwoven cells known as neurons that make up the brain, researchers acknowledge they are only beginning to scratch the surface of a scientific challenge that is certain to prove vastly more complicated...

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Ice Fishermen Not Immune to Doping’s Reach

WAUSAU, Wis. — The ice fishermen spent a week on the frozen lake, and on the last day, after emptying perch and bluegill from their buckets and scrubbing bait from their hands, several winners of the World Ice Fishing Championship were ushered into...

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Unboxed: N.Y.U. Center Develops a ‘Science of Cities’

THE notion of a "science of cities" seems contradictory. Science is a realm of grand theory and precise measurement, while cities are messy agglomerations of people and human foible. But science is precisely the ambition of New York University's Center...

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Proposed Propane Tank Divides Searsport, Me.

SEARSPORT, Me. — In the winter of 2007, thousands of homes and businesses in rural Maine almost lost their heat because of a severe propane shortage. The shortage led to rationing and prompted Gov. John Baldacci to scramble for a solution, including...

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Ice Fishermen Not Immune to Doping’s Reach

WAUSAU, Wis. — The ice fishermen spent a week on the frozen lake, and on the last day, after emptying perch and bluegill from their buckets and scrubbing bait from their hands, several winners of the World Ice Fishing Championship were ushered into...

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Unboxed: N.Y.U. Center Develops a ‘Science of Cities’

THE notion of a "science of cities" seems contradictory. Science is a realm of grand theory and precise measurement, while cities are messy agglomerations of people and human foible. But science is precisely the ambition of New York University's Center...

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Proposed Propane Tank Divides Searsport, Me.

SEARSPORT, Me. — In the winter of 2007, thousands of homes and businesses in rural Maine almost lost their heat because of a severe propane shortage. The shortage led to rationing and prompted Gov. John Baldacci to scramble for a solution, including...

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New $3 Million Prizes Awarded to 11 in Life Sciences

Eleven scientists, most of them American, were scheduled to be named on Wednesday as the first winners of the world's richest academic prize for medicine and biology — $3 million each, more than twice the amount of the Nobel Prize. The award, the...

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Proposed Propane Tank Divides Searsport, Me.

David Wright for The New York Times Opponents illustrated the size of the diameter of the proposed liquid petroleum storage tank in Searsport, Me. SEARSPORT, Me. — In the winter of 2007, thousands of homes and businesses in rural Maine almost lost...

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City Room: Fireballs in the Sky Are Not Exclusive to Siberia

"On Friday evening, a few minutes before 10 o'clock," the account begins, "I was standing with a friend in Thirty-fourth-street, near the southwest corner of Madison-avenue, when we observed a luminous body rising rapidly from behind the houses on the...

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Robert C. Richardson, Nobel-Winning Physicist, Dies at 75

Robert C. Richardson, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for coaxing a rare form of helium into a bizarre liquid state that had never been seen before, died on Tuesday in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 75. The cause was complications of a heart attack...

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Snowstorm Slams Kansas and Missouri

Dave Kaup/Reuters A windy snowstorm battered the nation's middle section on Thursday, with sights like this one in Overland Park, Kan., common. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Lightning flashed and thunder rumbled as a frigid, windy winter storm whipped through...

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