Timef 06/26/2025
- Republicans Propose a New Way to Scrap Fuel Economy Rules: No Fines nytimes.com2025-06-26 22:49:39
For 50 years, automakers have had to increase the fuel efficiency of their vehicles or pay fines. The Republican megabill would set those penalties to $0.
- Here’s Another Use for Ice: Creating Secret Codes nytimes.com2025-06-26 17:05:08
Scientists have devised a way of writing and storing messages by creating patterns of air bubbles in sheets of ice.
- How Two Neuroscientists View Optical Illusions nytimes.com2025-06-26 17:03:16
The Best Illusion of the Year contest offers researchers, and participants, an opportunity to explore the gaps and limits of human perception.
- Grand Jury Indicts Russian Scientist on Smuggling Charges nytimes.com2025-06-26 07:44:54
Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard researcher, was detained in February after failing to declare scientific samples she was carrying into the country.
- N.I.H. Memo Pauses Cancellations of Medical Research Grants nytimes.com2025-06-26 02:48:56
The directive, in a memo issued Tuesday, came after two court rulings that questioned the Trump administration’s swift cuts to funding.
- Fred Espenak, Astrophysicist Known as Mr. Eclipse, Dies at 73 nytimes.com2025-06-26 02:40:51
He chased eclipses for five decades, wrote several books about them and worked with NASA to make data accessible to nonscientist sky gazers.
- Scientists Retrace 30,000-Year-Old Ocean Voyage, in a Hollowed-Out Log nytimes.com2025-06-26 02:00:13
Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and migrated offshore.
- Did Baby Talk Give Rise to Language? nytimes.com2025-06-26 02:00:07
The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our species’ grasp of language.
