Timef 03/07/2026
- Lemurs Love This Fruit That Is Choking Madagascar’s Forests nytimes.com2026-03-07 18:00:40
The strawberry guava, one of the world’s worst invasive species, hinders forest restoration on the island while feeding its famous endangered primates.
- For These Design Materials, It’s Goodbye and Good Riddance nytimes.com2026-03-07 18:00:14
Not all acts of extinction are to be regretted.
- NASA’s Asteroid-Smashing DART Mission Sped Up Space Rock’s Orbit Around the Sun nytimes.com2026-03-07 03:00:11
New data about the DART spacecraft’s effects adds evidence that Earth could be defended from future deadly asteroids by diverting their orbits.
- From 1983: Lise Meitner, Physicist, Is Dead at 89; Paved Way for Splitting of Atom nytimes.com2026-03-07 01:08:45
She laid much of the theoretical groundwork for the atomic bomb, although she did not participate directly in its production.
- From 2000: Hedy Lamarr, Sultry Star Who Reigned in Hollywood nytimes.com2026-03-07 00:55:11
A temptress on the silver screen in the 1930s and ’40s, she later became an inventor.
