Dot Earth Blog: Kerry Proposes U.S.-India Push on Carbon and Climate

Shortly after prodding India in a New Delhi speech to find ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions, Secretary of State John Kerry sent a "Your Dot" piece (a guest post) emphasizing that he sees this as a partnership between two dynamic, innovative...

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Breaking the Seal on Drug Research

Steve Ruark for The New York Times Peter Doshi, in background, wants to give consumers "the full picture" on drug data. He shared an article with Kevin Fain in a Johns Hopkins cafe. PETER DOSHI walked across the campus of Johns Hopkins University...

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W.H.O. Issues Guidelines for Earlier H.I.V. Treatment

People infected with H.I.V. should be put on antiretroviral therapy even sooner than they are now, the World Health Organization said Sunday as it released new treatment guidelines. While the new guidelines, issued at an international AIDS conference...

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Op-Ed Contributor: Native Alaska, Under Threat

PARK CITY, Utah — I TRAVEL the world on the professional ski and snowboard circuit, but I grew up in a place most will never know firsthand. I was raised in Aleknagik, Alaska — an indigenous Yupik Eskimo village 400 air miles from the nearest chairlift...

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Energy Secretary Optimistic on Obama’s Plan to Reduce Emissions

WASHINGTON — The short-term plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that President Obama outlined this week is achievable with some new programs and better management of existing ones, the new energy secretary, Ernest J. Moniz, said in an interview...

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Chinese Firm Is Charged in Theft of Turbine Software

WASHINGTON — China's biggest wind turbine company and two of its executives conspired with an employee of a Massachusetts wind company to steal the American firm's software for controlling the flow of electricity, causing $800 million in damages, according...

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News Analysis: Clean Air Act, Reinterpreted, Would Focus on Flexibility and State-Level Efforts

With no chance of Congressional support, President Obama is staking part of his legacy on a big risk: that he can substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions by stretching the intent of a law decades old and not written with climate change in mind....

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World Briefing | Asia: China: Astronauts Return Safely

Three Chinese astronauts returned safely to earth on Wednesday after a 15-day mission that included docking exercises, a televised science demonstration for children and a phone call from their country's president, Xi Jinping, state television reported....

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Dot Earth Blog: Obama’s Ambitious Global Warming Action Plan

In advance of President Obama's speech Tuesday afternoon laying out his three-pronged plan to cut releases of greenhouse gases and the impacts of global warming, White House officials circulated detailed fact sheets and discussed the plans with journalists,...

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For Solazyme, a Side Trip on the Way to Clean Fuel

Jim Wilson/The New York Times Solazyme wants to develop oil derived from algae as an alternative fuel. STARTING when they became friends in freshman year at Emory University in Atlanta, Jonathan S. Wolfson and Harrison F. Dillon would take off...

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Dot Earth Blog: Obama Previews an Upcoming Global Warming Speech

Three years after President Obama's science adviser, John P. Holdren, said that the president was planning a "major speech" on addressing human-driven global warming, it's coming — on Tuesday at Georgetown University. The speech comes a few days after...

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Kenneth Wilson, Nobel Physicist, Dies at 77

Cornell University Kenneth Wilson in 1982, the year he won the Nobel Prize. He determined how to calculate tricky moments in physics. Kenneth G. Wilson, who was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics for showing how to calculate tricky moments...

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Business Briefing | Company News: Monsanto Calls Altered Wheat in Field Suspicious

Monsanto officials said that testing of United States wheat had shown that the presence of the company's unapproved, experimental, genetically altered wheat in an Oregon field was highly suspicious and was an isolated incident that could not have happened...

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For Solazyme, a Side Trip on the Way to Clean Fuel

Jim Wilson/The New York Times Solazyme wants to develop oil derived from algae as an alternative fuel. STARTING when they became friends in freshman year at Emory University in Atlanta, Jonathan S. Wolfson and Harrison F. Dillon would take off...

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Dot Earth Blog: Obama Previews an Upcoming Global Warming Speech

Three years after President Obama's science adviser, John P. Holdren, said that the president was planning a "major speech" on addressing human-driven global warming, it's coming — on Tuesday at Georgetown University. The speech comes a few days after...

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Kenneth Wilson, Nobel Physicist, Dies at 77

Cornell University Kenneth Wilson in 1982, the year he won the Nobel Prize. He determined how to calculate tricky moments in physics. Kenneth G. Wilson, who was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics for showing how to calculate tricky moments...

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A Solution for a San Diego Cove’s Constant Odor: Bacteria

Sam Hodgson for The New York Times Workers from a cleaning company on Friday used a solution made up of seven kinds of bacteria that digest animal feces. SAN DIEGO — Depending upon whom you ask, the smell that has plagued La Jolla Cove has been...

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Business Briefing | Company News: Monsanto Calls Altered Wheat in Field Suspicious

Monsanto officials said that testing of United States wheat had shown that the presence of the company's unapproved, experimental, genetically altered wheat in an Oregon field was highly suspicious and was an isolated incident that could not have happened...

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Dot Earth Blog: ‘Pandora’s Promise’ Director and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Debate Nuclear Options

I promised to alert folks when video was available of the heated discussion I moderated recently between Robert Stone, the director of "Pandora's Promise," the new film in which five former foes of nuclear energy defend this power source, and Robert...

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Observatory: 3-D Map of Human Brain Gives Unprecedented Detail

Amunts, Zilles, Evans et al. Researchers use a special tool called a microtome to cut sections from a brain preserved in paraffin wax into tiny slivers 20 micrometers thick. Researchers in Germany and Canada have produced a new map of the human...

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Kenneth Wilson, Nobel Physicist, Dies at 77

Cornell University Kenneth Wilson in 1982, the year he won the Nobel Prize. He determined how to calculate tricky moments in physics. Kenneth G. Wilson, who was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics for showing how to calculate tricky moments...

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NASA’s New Class of Astronauts Gives Parity to Men and Women

NASA The new class of trainees includes four women and four men. From left, Josh A. Cassada, Victor J. Glover, Tyler N. Hague, Christina M. Hammock, Nicole Aunapu Mann, Anne C. McClain, Jessica U. Meir and Andrew R. Morgan. One flies a fighter...

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