Web Privacy, and How Consumers Let Down Their Guard

Jeff Swensen for The New York Times Intriguing experiments by Alessandro Acquisti, a behavioral economist, suggest that people often reveal more than they mean to online. SAY you've come across a discount online retailer promising a steal on hand-stitched...

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Preoccupations: Why Innovators Get Better With Age

"WE need some gray hair" once referred to needing someone with more experience. But I haven't heard that expression in a very long time. In fact, many companies are intentionally reducing the average age of their work forces in an effort to save...

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Novelties: Robots and Humans, Learning to Work Together

FACTORY robots are usually caged off from humans on the assembly line lest the machines' powerful steel arms deliver an accidental, bone-crunching right hook. But now, gentler industrial robots, designed to work and play well with others, are coming...

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Shroud of Turin Going on TV, With a Word From the Pope

ROME — The Shroud of Turin, which since medieval times has been revered by many Christians as the burial cloth of Jesus, is about to make its debut on modern media platforms. On Holy Saturday, the linen cloth imprinted with the faint brownish image...

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The Week: NASA Engines Found, News About Squid and More

So few people do favors for NASA these days. So when Jeff Bezos, the Amazon.com founder, announced last week that an expedition he financed had hoisted two F-1 rocket engines from an Apollo mission off the ocean floor, the agency was understandably...

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Space Coast Showing Signs of an Economic Recovery

Edward Linsmier for The New York Times Embraer, a Brazilian company, was courted by 20 states but chose Florida, hiring many laid-off NASA employees to assemble jets in Melbourne. MELBOURNE, Fla. — The day after the shuttle Atlantis landed for...

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Soaring Bee Deaths in 2012 Sound Alarm on Malady

By Matt H. Mayes and Axel Gerdau Jim Wilson/The New York Times A Disastrous Year for Bees: For America's beekeepers, who have struggled for nearly a decade with a mysterious malady called colony collapse disorder that kills honeybees en masse,...

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E.P.A. Wants to Cut Amount of Sulfur in Gasoline

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency will propose a rule on Friday that will cut the amount of sulfur allowed in gasoline by two-thirds to improve the performance of the catalytic converters in engines that fight smog, the agency has told...

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2011 Oklahoma Quake Tied to Wastewater Disposal at Oil Wells

A damaging earthquake in central Oklahoma two years ago most likely resulted from the pumping of wastewater from oil production into deep wells, scientists say. The magnitude 5.7 quake, which destroyed more than a dozen homes and injured two people,...

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3rd Oral Drug to Treat MS Is Approved by the F.D.A.

A chemical once used to treat sofas — until it was found to cause rashes and blisters in people who sat on them — is now poised to become a major therapy for multiple sclerosis. The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the chemical,...

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Dairy Finds Way to Let Cows Power Trucks

Peter Hoffman for The New York Times Fair Oaks Farms in Fair Oaks, Ind., has long used livestock waste to create enough natural gas to fully power 10 barns, a cheese factory, a gift shop and more. More Photos » FAIR OAKS, Ind. — Here at one of...

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Doctor for N.F.L. Says Study Overstates Effects of C.T.E.

When a government agency prepared a workplace safety fact sheet based on a study of degenerative brain disease in retired N.F.L. players, the organization invited several people to comment on a draft. According to a memorandum obtained by The New...

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Loppersum Journal: More Earthquakes in Loppersum, the Netherlands

Herman Wouters for The New York Times Bert de Jong says the walls of his Loppersum house now bulge and will require buttressing. LOPPERSUM, the Netherlands — Jannes Kadyk's modest brick home suffered more than $5,000 in damage. Bert de Jong's more...

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Lockheed Martin Harnesses Quantum Technology

Kim Stallknecht for The New York Times Lockheed Martin bought a version of D-Wave's quantum computer and plans to upgrade it to commercial scale. VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Our digital age is all about bits, those precise ones and zeros that...

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New York State Bonds Include Warning on Climate Change

The warning, which is now appearing in the state's bond offerings, comes as Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, continues to urge that public officials come to grips with the frequency of extreme weather and to declare that climate change is a reality. A spokesman...

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Salesmen in the Surgical Suite

Ann Johansson for The New York Times When Fred E. Taylor arrived at Harrison Medical Center in Silverdale, Wash., for a routine prostatectomy, he expected the best medical care new technology had to offer: robotic surgery, billed as safer, less...

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The Week: NASA Engines Found, News About Squid and More

So few people do favors for NASA these days. So when Jeff Bezos, the Amazon.com founder, announced last week that an expedition he financed had hoisted two F-1 rocket engines from an Apollo mission off the ocean floor, the agency was understandably...

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James Cameron to Donate Deep-Sea Craft to Woods Hole Institute

The Hollywood director James Cameron is donating the craft that he built and last year rode into the sea's deepest spot to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, as part of a new collaboration meant to speed ocean exploration, the partners announced...

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