Tuesday, 10 May 2016

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Three-dimensional cultures that mimc fetal brain development.
Three-dimensional cultures that mimc fetal brain development. Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times
A Window Into the Workings of Zika
A graduate student's offhand remark spurred research that has provided clues about how the virus damages the brain.
• Bacteria-Infected Mosquitoes Could Slow Spread of Virus
• Rapid Test Is Introduced by Researchers
 
New wind turbines off Germany, where renewable energy is soaring and driving down prices.
Djamila Grossman for The New York Times
By JUSTIN GILLIS

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is applying market forces on utilities to transform the way electricity is produced, transmitted and consumed.

An artist's rendering of a monitoring satellite.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA
By WILLIAM J. BROAD

The world's space agencies have proposed launching a fleet of next-generation satellites to monitor individual nations' emissions.

Tooga/Getty Images
By TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG

About a quarter of most people's energy bills come from devices in idle mode. A reporter took a power meter around with her to locate the hidden power drains.

A photo published in Nature Materials accompanying research reporting early studies on a chemically manufactured second skin.
Olivo Labs
By GINA KOLATA

An invisible film painted on your skin can make wrinkles and undereye bags disappear, scientists at Harvard and M.I.T. reported.

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OceanOne, a Mer-Bot Dive Buddy With a 'Friendly Face'

A submersible robot in humanoid form, developed at Stanford University, completed its first dive in April, recovering a 17th-century vase.

Observatories on Mount Teide on Tenerife. Mount Teide is a Unesco World Heritage site and a designated Starlight Reserve.
Starry Nights in the Canary Islands

Astrotourism is taking hold in the Spanish territory, long a favorite of astronomers who have perched powerful telescopes on volcanic peaks.

Gavin Pretor-Pinney
The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community

An improbable tale of how a British maverick harnessed crowdsourced meteorological discoveries to reveal the poetic wonders of the sky.

The Science of Fat
Sean Algaier, a pastor from Charlotte, N.C., was a contestant on
Readers Respond: 'The Biggest Loser'

An article about the struggles of "The Biggest Loser" contestants who regained weight drew an influx of responses from readers.

• Short Answers to Hard Questions About Weight Loss
• After 'The Biggest Loser,' Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight
Left, whipped chickpea water (aquafaba); right, whipped egg whites.
Vegans Whip Up a Secret Weapon: Aquafaba

Chickpea water has become a sensation as a frothy egg substitute in mousses, meringues and mayonnaise.

 
Red-sided garter snakes. Upon emerging from their eight-month slumber, they get down to the business of mating. At times, the ratio of males to females is 10,000 to 1.
In Narcisse, Around 75,000 Snakes Are Waking Up From a Nap

Tubes filled with quantum dots, which emit many different crisp, dramatic colors under LED lights making them desirable for use in flat-screen displays and medical imaging devices.<br />  <p></p>
How a Mysterious Bacteria Almost Gave You a Better TV

A moist chocolate dump-it cake.
We Know You Hate 'Moist.' What Other Words Repel You?

A fossil and a replica of Atopodentatus unicus, a 242-million-year-old marine reptile with a hammerhead skull.
Earliest Plant-Eating Marine Reptile Had a Hammerhead

Wildfires in Fort McMurray, Alberta, on Wednesday. More than 80,000 people have fled the area.
Dry Winter and Warm Spring Set Stage for Canadian Inferno

A study released on Thursday found that many Ph.D. students pursue post-docs as a
Where Can a Ph.D. Take You? Back to School, Usually

Harold Kroto in 1996. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry that year for discovering a new arrangement of carbon.
Harold Kroto, Who Shared Nobel for Discovery of Buckyballs, Is Dead at 76

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